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The Architecture of Intelligence

Like Duolingo, but for The Architecture of Intelligence. 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.

26 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free during early access · No credit card · iPhone & Android

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The Architecture of Intelligence
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26
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Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo turns The Architecture of Intelligence into a game you actually finish. Levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that make it stick. Five minutes a day.

What you'll learn

Where The Architecture of Intelligence takes you

Go beneath the interface to explore the mathematical engines and data structures that allow machines to predict, reason, and generate. Learn how simple patterns scale into the complex behaviors of modern AI.

  1. 1

    Foundations of Machine Learning

    • Weighting the Odds: How Neurons Adjust
    • The Error Signal: Learning from Mistakes
    • Layers of Logic: Building Deep Networks
    • Optimization: Finding the Lowest Point of Failure
  2. 2

    Processing Language and Context

    • Turning Words into Numbers: Vector Spaces
    • The Attention Mechanism: Focusing on What Matters
    • Sequence Prediction: Guessing the Next Token
    • Context Windows: How Much a Model Remembers
    • Positional Encoding: Keeping Track of Order
    • Transformer Blocks: The Engine of Modern Chatbots
  3. 3

    Training and Refinement

    • Pre-training: Absorbing the Internet
    • Fine-Tuning: Specializing for Tasks
    • Human Feedback: Aligning AI with Intent

3 sections · 13 units · 26 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

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Turning the Information Knobs

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