EBOXLAB/ai

[ online course · self-paced ]

AI from the Inside

How large language models work, and how to put them to work

  • 10 lessons
  • 2 parts
  • read · video · exercise · quiz

$99the whole course, ten lessons

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Halftone drawing of a classical marble bust among drafting tools: a protractor, a set square, a compass and a pencil

[ what you will learn ]

Open the machine, layer by layer. Then put it to work.

Part 1 takes a language model apart. Part 2 is about using one well.

  1. What AI, machine learning and a large language model are, in plain words.
  2. How text becomes numbers: tokens, embeddings, and the one multiplication behind tensors.
  3. How a network learns: weights, error and gradient descent.
  4. What the Transformer and attention do, and why a model sometimes makes things up.
  5. The map of today's tools, and how to give a model a task: role, context, examples, format.
  6. How to build a small AI workflow of your own, closed by a final test and a mini-project.
  1. 01 · readReadA short read, in plain words.
  2. 02 · watchWatchA short video.
  3. 03 · doDoA hands-on exercise.
  4. 04 · passPassA quiz. Pass it to open the next lesson.

[ lessons ]

Ten lessons, two parts.

Lesson 1 is ready. The others are in preparation and open as they are finished.

Desk from above: a sketchbook with a drawing of a classical head and a neural network, a protractor, a set square and a slide rule

part 1 · 6 lessons

How AI works

  1. 01What AI is, and what an LLM isreadyvideo 1:20 · 6 min read · exercise · quiz
  2. 02Text as numbers: tokens and embeddingsin preparation
  3. 03Tensors without fear: vectors, matrices, one multiplicationin preparation
  4. 04How a network learns: weights, error, gradient descentin preparation
  5. 05The Transformer and attentionin preparation
  6. 06From model to assistant: training, context, and why it makes things upin preparation
Blueprint of a pipeline: a document, gears, a grid of numbers, a cube of data, a neural network, a clock and a key, joined by arrows

part 2 · 4 lessons

Tools and practice

  1. 07The tool map todayin preparation
  2. 08Giving a model a task: role, context, examples, formatin preparation
  3. 09Practice: build a small AI workflowin preparation
  4. 10Final test and mini-projectin preparation

[ format and price ]

Self-paced, one lesson at a time.

Online, self-paced. Ten lessons: a short read, a video, a hands-on exercise and a quiz in each. Pass a lesson's quiz to open the next one.

the whole course

$99USD

One price for all ten lessons.

  • Ten lessons in two parts
  • A short read, a video, an exercise and a quiz in each
  • Self-paced: pass a lesson's quiz to open the next one
Enroll · $99
Open lesson 1

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