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Understanding AI

Go deeper than the buzzwords — genuinely understand how AI learns, thinks, predicts, and where it fails. 9 dense lessons, each with a LIVE interactive animation embedded right in the page. No maths, no coding.

AI Intro Series · Part 2 of 6

This is part of an ordered path — best taken in sequence, from Part 1.

Who it's for

Anyone who wants to truly understand how AI works under the hood — no maths or coding, just clear explanations paired with live interactive visuals.

What you'll learn

  • Understand how AI learns patterns from examples, not rules
  • See what a neural network really is — weighted connections that learn
  • Grasp how AI is trained, reads in tokens, and predicts the next chunk
  • Understand embeddings — how AI represents meaning as a map
  • Know why AI leapt forward (scale) and where it fails (hallucinations, bias, memory, cut-off)
  • Trust and use AI wisely, because you understand how it actually works

Course contents

  1. 01How AI learns
  2. 02Inside the "brain" (neural networks)
  3. 03How AI is trained
  4. 04How AI reads & predicts
  5. 05Meaning is a map (embeddings)
  6. 06Why AI got so good, so fast
  7. 07Why it makes things up (hallucinations)
  8. 08Bias, memory & no live knowledge
  9. 09You understand AI now