How Artificial Intelligence Works
Like Duolingo, but for How Artificial Intelligence Works. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
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Key ideas in How Artificial Intelligence Works
- Vague commands lack background
- Context allows tailoring
- Instructions over verbs
- The importance of context over the specific command
- Personas filter style
- Adopting perspective
- Shortcut to personality
- How assigning a persona changes the AI's output style
- AI is excellent at pattern matching from provided examples
- Examples reduce ambiguity by showing the AI exactly what 'good' looks like
- AI can lose track of details if asked to do too many things at once
- Intermediate steps allow the user to catch AI 'hallucinations' or errors early
- Sequential prompting keeps the AI focused on one sub-task at a time
- Few-shot prompting (giving examples) is faster than writing long descriptive paragraphs
- Using examples to improve output quality
- AI doesn't have feelings or 'mean' to be difficult; it follows the patterns in your text
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives How Artificial Intelligence Works the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
What is the main benefit of telling the AI 'who' you are emailing and 'why' you are doing it?
Get it right to open this lesson and 20 more in the app.
Where How Artificial Intelligence Works takes you
Go beyond the hype to understand how AI actually processes information, how to get the best results from it, and where its limits truly lie.
- 1
Getting Results Right Now
- Collaborating with AI
- Refining the Conversation
- 2
Noticing How It Thinks
- The Prediction Engine
- Recognizing the Limits
- 3
Choosing and Using Tools
- Picking the Right Model
- Privacy and Security
- 4
The Engine Under the Hood
- How Machines Learn
4 sections · 7 units · 21 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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