Creator Spotlight: The AI Expert Teaching 500,000 on Instagram
Briefly

Creator Spotlight: The AI Expert Teaching 500,000 on Instagram
"But today I have something completely different: In just a few short years, AI and its potential to change our workplaces and creative spaces shifted from the theoretical to the very real. But for all the striking ways the tech is changing how we live and work, it can still feel frustratingly complex. Enter Harper Carroll, a Stanford-educated computer scientist who has spent her career working with AI models at companies like Meta and startup Brev.dev, which was acquired by NVIDIA in 2024."
""I hear a lot from people afraid of AI without knowing fully what it is," says Carroll, 30, who lives in Austin, Texas. "It's less scary when you actually look under the hood." Carroll, who dreamt of being an actor when she was a kid, was instead on track for a career as a tech executive when, in 2023, she built a coding guide and posted it to X."
Harper Carroll is a Stanford-educated computer scientist who worked with AI models at Meta and Brev.dev, which was acquired by NVIDIA in 2024. She creates accessible AI education on Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok, reaching more than 535,000 followers on Instagram. Her "10 Days of AI Basics" series grew an Instagram following from about 2,000 to over 200,000 in three weeks. A viral coding guide post on X in 2023 propelled her transition from a tech executive path to social AI education. She partners with brands including Microsoft and Workday and expanded to Substack for longer-form writing. She is launching a four-week course titled From AI U.
Read at Theankler
Unable to calculate read time
[
|
]