Artificial Intelligence
The new age of AI moves fast. These pages explain what's actually happening — the history, the math, the use cases, the tradeoffs — in plain language for students, parents, and self-learners.
Topics
Foundations
liveWhat is AI?
A two-minute video plus an eight-chapter long-form primer. The clean read on what AI is and how it works.
Open
Foundations
soonHow models train
Tokens, parameters, gradient descent. The middle layer of how a model goes from raw text to capability.
Hands-on
soonPrompting basics
How to write prompts that get useful answers. Real examples, real before-and-afters.
Hands-on
soonBuilding with the API
A first walk-through of using a foundation model API in code. Python or JavaScript.
Tradeoffs
soonBias & alignment
Where models go wrong, why, and what the field is doing about it.
Tradeoffs
soonEnergy & cost
What it actually takes to train and run a frontier model — kilowatts, dollars, water.