▍ 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.

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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.

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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.

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