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Free guides explaining AI concepts in plain English. No jargon walls, no PhD required. Start with the basics or jump to what interests you.

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Getting Started with AI

New to AI? Start here. A practical roadmap for beginners.

Beginner

What is Machine Learning?

How computers learn from data instead of being explicitly programmed.

Beginner

What Are Neural Networks?

The computing systems behind modern AI, loosely inspired by the brain.

Beginner

What is Deep Learning?

Neural networks with many layers — the tech behind today's breakthroughs.

Beginner

What Are Large Language Models?

GPT-4, Claude, Gemini — how they work and why they matter.

Intermediate

What Are Transformers?

The architecture behind virtually every major AI model since 2017.

Intermediate

How AI Models Are Trained

Data, GPUs, and the pipeline from raw text to working AI.

Intermediate

What is Fine-Tuning?

Adapting pre-trained models for specific tasks and domains.

Intermediate

What is RLHF?

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback — how ChatGPT got helpful.

Practical

What is Prompt Engineering?

Getting better results from AI models through better instructions.

Intermediate

What is RAG?

Retrieval-Augmented Generation — giving AI access to your data.

Intermediate

What Are Embeddings?

How AI converts text and images into numbers that capture meaning.

Intermediate

What Are AI Agents?

Autonomous systems that plan, use tools, and take actions.

Beginner

What is NLP?

How AI understands and generates human language.

Beginner

What is Computer Vision?

How AI processes images and video — object detection to medical imaging.

Intermediate

What Are Diffusion Models?

The technology behind Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and Midjourney.

Beginner

What is Multimodal AI?

Models that process text, images, audio, and video together.

Intermediate

What is Reinforcement Learning?

AI that learns by trial and error, rewards, and penalties.

Beginner

Open Source AI Explained

Llama, Mistral, and the movement to democratize AI.

Important

What is AI Safety?

Keeping AI reliable, aligned, and under human control.

Important

AI Ethics Explained

Bias, fairness, transparency, and the moral questions of AI.

Policy

AI Regulation Explained

EU AI Act, US policy, and global rules for AI.

Advanced

AI Security & Red Teaming

Prompt injection, jailbreaks, and how AI systems are defended.

Intermediate

Understanding AI Benchmarks

MMLU, HumanEval, and how we measure AI performance.

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