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AI Basics

Understand modern AI from the ground up, from models and prompts to RAG and agents.

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Start the path: What Is AI? →

  1. 1 What Is AI? Beginner How a language model learns patterns and builds an answer.
  2. 2 What Is Machine Learning? Beginner How computers learn from examples instead of being told every rule.
  3. 3 What Is a Model? Beginner The learned pattern brain a computer uses to make guesses.
  4. 4 What Is an LLM? Beginner A robot brain that learns patterns in words and predicts what comes next.
  5. 5 What Is a Prompt? Beginner The question or instruction you give an AI.
  6. 6 What Is a Token? Intermediate The little pieces of text an AI reads and writes, one at a time.
  7. 7 What Is Context? Beginner How an AI keeps track of what was just said.
  8. 8 What Is Training Data? Beginner The examples an AI learns from. Good examples make a good AI.
  9. 9 What Is Fine-Tuning? Intermediate Giving a trained AI extra practice on a special job.
  10. 10 What Is RAG? Intermediate How the robot looks things up before it answers.
  11. 11 What Are AI Agents? Intermediate AI that can take actions and use tools to get things done.
  12. 12 What Is Hallucination? Beginner When an AI sounds sure but makes something up.

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