Siraj Raval does a great job of explaining AI topics with fun, fresh, and easy to understand topics and examples:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWN3xxRkmTPmbKwht9FuE5A
Here's a recent video where he talks about how to create new Pokemon with Generative Adversarial Networks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network). Nice contrast from the usual MNIST dataset, especially if you want to be inspired to think about novel ways to apply this stuff: