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What Actually Is an AI? (And Why It's Not Magic)

From 'it's magic' to 'I get it' in 20 minutes

The world's most powerful AI is doing something surprisingly simple: predicting the next word. This course shows you how that one trick creates everything from poetry to code — and why knowing it changes how you prompt forever.

20 min total·3 modules·3 free preview

After this course, you can…

After this course, you can explain how LLMs work at an intuitive level and stop expecting magic from them.

Course modules

1

The Autocomplete That Ate the Internet

6 min

+33 XPFree
2

Why It Sounds So Smart (But Isn't)

7 min

+33 XPFree
3

The Three Things AI Can and Can't Do

7 min

+33 XPFree
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