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MixedEasyAI Fundamentals
How AI Works: Foundations for Everyone
Understand what AI really is, how ChatGPT-style models produce answers, and how to use them without being fooled — the starting point for every AI career path.
6 lessons3 exams3h 29m
About this course
This is Level 0, topic 1 of the BitByte AI path: the foundation every later course builds on. Short, carefully chosen videos from IBM, 3Blue1Brown, Google and Andrej Karpathy, a bilingual written tutorial, and three quizzes from easy to hard.
No coding or maths background is required.
What you will learn
- Explain the difference between AI, machine learning, deep learning and generative AI
- Describe how a large language model turns a prompt into an answer
- Estimate token counts and explain why Bangla uses more tokens than English
- Recognise hallucinations and reduce them with grounding and verification
- Work within context windows and the knowledge cutoff
- Use AI tools responsibly: bias, privacy and what never to paste
Curriculum
1. The big picture
3 items- Introduction to Large Language Models15:46
2. Read: how AI works
1 item3. Check yourself
3 items- How AI Works — Quiz 1 (Easy)10:00
- How AI Works — Quiz 2 (Medium)15:00
- How AI Works — Final Exam (Hard)20:00
4. Go deeper (optional)
3 items- Transformers, the Tech Behind LLMs27:14
- Attention in Transformers, Step by Step26:09
- Intro to Large Language Models (1-hour talk)59:48
Requirements
- No prior AI, coding or maths knowledge
- Basic English for the videos (the tutorial and quizzes are in English and Bangla)
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