Understand course, Foundations

AI Foundations

Explain how modern AI actually works, in plain language.

7 lessons · 47 min · Free · Earns the Curio AI Foundations Mastery Credential

What you will learn

1. What is AI5 minSoftware that learns patterns from data instead of following fixed rules.
2. How machines learn7 minFitting a function to examples so it generalizes to new cases.
3. Neural networks8 minLayers of simple weighted units that together approximate complex functions.
4. Training vs inference6 minThe expensive one-time learning phase versus the cheap repeated answering phase.
5. What is a large language model7 minA next-token predictor trained on vast text that becomes broadly capable.
6. Tokens and context6 minText is chunked into tokens; the context window is how many the model can hold at once.
7. Embeddings8 minTurning text into vectors whose distances capture meaning.