FREEBeginnerBlock 1 · AI Productivity
Inside the Machine: How AI Models Think
This course explains how AI language models actually work — in plain English, without maths or code. You'll understand tokens, embeddings, training, generation, and the context window. That understanding makes you significantly more effective at using these tools, because you'll know why they behave as they do.
11 lessons203 min
What You'll Learn
- From Prompt to Output: The Real Process
- Why Words Become Numbers (and Back Again)
- Training on the World's Conversations
- When AI Confidently Gets It Wrong
- Match Your Goal to the Right Model
- Prediction One Token at a Time
- Why AI Forgets What You Just Said
- Size, Speed, Cost: What Actually Matters
- What AI Cannot Do (Yet)
- Check Your Understanding: Core Mechanics