Khalid ShamsPrincipal Solutions Architect

Learn AI · Guided path 1 of 6

What AI is, really

When you finish: You can say what makes a system 'AI', where machine learning and language models sit inside it, and why the data it learned from matters.

About 20 minutes · 8 stops, 7 of them ideas from the map · progress is kept on this device ·

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The stops, in order

Each stop is one page. Read it, picture it, mark it, move on.

Ideas open on their own page with three depths. Atlas stops open the interactive lesson at the right step and count as done when you follow the run to its end. Sections count when you have read them.

  1. 1Artificial IntelligenceSoftware that does things we used to think needed human thinking: recognising faces, translating, writing, deciding.idea
  2. 2Machine LearningInstead of writing rules, you show the computer many examples and it figures out the rules itself.idea
  3. 3Deep LearningNeural networks with many layers, which turned out to be surprisingly good at images, speech and language.idea
  4. 4AlgorithmA precise, step-by-step recipe a computer follows.idea
  5. 5ModelThe thing AI produces after learning: a compact set of numbers that turns inputs into outputs.idea
  6. 6DataThe examples an AI learns from: text, photos, clicks, sounds, numbers.idea
  7. 7BiasWhen AI treats some people or situations unfairly because of patterns in its data.idea
  8. 8The stack in seven layersEvery AI word you have heard lives in exactly one of them.section

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