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Module 3 of 1015 min
How AI Works — Simply
A friendly, non-technical mental model of how AI produces answers, so you can use it with confidence.
Learning objectives
- Form a simple mental model of how AI responds
- Understand why context and wording change results
- Explain, in one analogy, how AI 'predicts' text
Key topics
Models & trainingContext windowPrediction, not knowingWhy outputs vary
Practical exercise
Ask an AI the same question two different ways. Compare the answers and note what changed.
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