Not the marketing version. Not the academic version. The real mechanics of artificial intelligence — explained clearly, with history, animations, and honest uncertainty about what we don't know.
Start from the beginningThis course takes you from "what even is a model?" to the genuine open questions that keep AI researchers up at night. Each lesson builds on the last, but you can jump to any topic that interests you. There are CSS animations to show concepts in motion, embedded videos from the best explainers in the field, and comprehension checks to make sure things actually land.
Is it a file? On a hard drive? How big? What are the numbers inside it, and what do they represent?
Neurons, layers, and the forward pass. What actually happens when data goes in and a prediction comes out.
Gradient descent, backpropagation, and the breakthrough papers that were rejected four separate times.
How Amazon reviews accidentally bootstrapped a field. ImageNet, bias, and the humans behind the labels.
The architecture that changed everything. Eight Google researchers, a Beatles reference, and 173,000 citations.
How ChatGPT actually works. RLHF, inference, temperature, and AlphaGo's Move 37.
From a Denny's booth to $5 trillion. GPUs, data centers the size of Central Park, and the chip wars.
The black box problem, the consciousness question, and where even the experts genuinely disagree.