▍ Section 03 / AI Literacy
What the machine is doing.
Plain-language explanations of AI systems, their capabilities, and their limits.
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What Is a Large Language Model, Really?
Strip away the hype and you're left with a remarkably elegant statistical machine. Here's what's actually happening inside GPT-4 and its siblings.
Prompting Is a Literacy Skill
Writing a good prompt has more in common with clear writing than with programming. Here's what that means for how you should approach it.
The Alignment Problem, in Plain English
Why making AI do what we want is harder than it sounds — and why some of the brightest minds in the world think it might be the most important problem of our time.