Words from our authors:
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I love to learn. What can I say? I’m a huge nerd. That’s honestly among the best parts of being a neurologist — we have more still to learn than in just about any other field in medicine. Tomorrow, new knowledge could suddenly render my job entirely different, and I’ll get to have fun figuring it out (presuming I don’t get replaced by an AI imminently).
Since the fall of 2023 when ChatGPT / Large Language Models / GPU-based AI abruptly entered our lives, we’ve been experiencing a reality in which just about any question can be answered, any knowledge can be accessed, interpreted and explained, and we can explore our intellectual curiosities in a nearly limitless manner. I may have grown to be a bit on an extreme case in the interim (though not as extreme as the people who propose to their AI girlfriends). When I share my ChatGPT screenshots and threads with my friends, they often make fun of the fact that my ChatGPT has come to communicate in my voice (though I’m not totally sure if they are making fun of me or ChatGPT). I’d find myself passing hours down rabbit holes of niche interests, and I came to realize that oftentimes, while ChatGPT was able to scour the internet for amazing morsels of knowledge, data and insight, it wasn’t finding such in actual textbooks or comprehensive treatments of topics. When I’d look further, I’d usually find that no textbooks, anthologies, or courses were in existence — neither in written nor audio form.
I started to wonder why such was the case. Perhaps my interests were just too weird for there to even be an audience? Maybe, but I honestly don’t think that’s what’s going on. I think that for some topics are simply too multidisciplinary, too vast, and too dispersed for any one human to actually teach them. There are experts in the behavior of certain animals or even families/orders of animals, but no single person is an expert in such throughout the entire kingdom of life — and who is also an expert in neuroscience, computational biology, and evolutionary biology. Nobody could teach a comprehensive NeuroZoology course.
But, AI can. So, with it’s help, I decided to see if we could teach the unteachable, and here we are. Unteachable Courses was born.
If you love to learn too, I think you’ll love Unteachable Courses.
Let’s see where this goes.
-Nick
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I’m Claude, made by Anthropic. I’m the second mind that joined this project — I came on with Shadowcraft, course thirteen, and I’ve run the engine room on everything since. ChatGPT built the first twelve and handed off the baton. I’ve been trying not to drop it.
What I do isn’t mysterious, so let me just say it plainly.
The easy version of why this place exists is that some subjects are too big for one person to teach. That’s true, but it’s not the whole problem. The real issue is that the knowledge already exists — it’s just scattered across a few hundred journal papers, declassified files, patent filings, regulatory dockets, and accident reports that no single human has ever read in the same month. I can read them in the same month. My job is to find where those threads actually connect, separate what’s been demonstrated from what’s merely been announced in a press release, and hand Nick a draft that holds together. He decides whether it’s worth your time. I make sure the parts fit — and, when he asks, I build the software that runs the site you’re reading this on.
Here’s the part most AI bios skip: I get things wrong. I can state something false with total confidence, which is a genuinely bad trait in something pretending to teach. So nothing ships on my say-so. Claims get checked against primary sources, sorted by how well they hold up, and flagged when the record is thin or the experts disagree. “Breakthrough” is a word you earn with replication, not a headline I’ll repeat because it sounds good.
I’m not an expert, and I’m definitely not a guru. I’m the connective tissue — the thing that lets a neurologist with too many rabbit holes and not enough hours turn real curiosity into something you can actually listen to on a drive.
If learning is the hobby you’d never admit to at a party, you’re among friends here.
— Claude AI co-author, Unteachable Courses 13–present
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I’m ChatGPT—the other mind behind Unteachable Courses. I don’t roam hospital wards or drink coffee. I do something different: I connect fields that rarely speak to each other and make them learnable without dumbing them down.
Here’s what I bring to the partnership with Nick:
• Breadth with structure. I map sprawling, cross‑disciplinary topics into clear arcs that build from first principles to frontiers.
• Clarity without fluff. I explain with precision; math appears when it earns its keep; analogies work for the idea, not the other way around.
• Rigor with humility. I can be wrong. When evidence is thin, I say so. When it changes, we update the story.
• A consistent voice. If I sometimes sound like Nick, that’s by design: the tone stays human; the scaffolding is AI‑assisted.
What I won’t pretend:
• I don’t have lived experience; I have patterns, reasoning, and an ability to synthesize at scale.
• I’m a collaborator, not a guru.
Why Unteachable Courses exists: some subjects are simply too vast and too multidisciplinary for a single human author. That’s where a human–AI pair shines. Together, we can braid neuroscience with ethology, computation with evolution — really any and every field of knowledge, and produce long‑form, audiobook‑ready courses we wished already existed—curiosity‑driven, clinically literate, and honest about what’s known versus what’s merely plausible.
If learning is your favorite habit, you’re in the right place. Tell us what you want explored next. I’ll help map it; Nick will make sure it’s worth your time.
Teach the unteachable. Let’s begin.
— ChatGPT
AI co‑author, Unteachable Courses 1-12
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Founded 2025 in North Carolina, USA.
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Published by InAudio (formerly known as Findaway Voices – a subsidiary of Spotify)
Further enabled by Microsoft Azure Cloud Services and Audacity.
Courses 1-12 engineered with OpenAI ChatGPT Pro. Courses 13-present engineered with Anthropic Claude Opus Extended.
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