Foundations

What Is AI

A sequence of encoded decisions that produces an answer.

Four layers of depth

Each layer ends with a quiz. Finish layer 4 and you own this concept.

1. L1IntuitionWhat 'AI' actually refers to and why the term spans everything from chess engines to chatbots.5m
   40 XP
2. L2MechanicsHow AI systems are actually categorized by capability and by how they acquire their behavior.8m
   70 XP
3. L3CodeA tiny end-to-end example contrasting a hand-coded rule with a trained statistical model on the same task.12m
   110 XP
4. L4FoundationsFormalizing 'learning' as function approximation and empirical risk minimization, plus a look at why scale changed everything.15m
   180 XP

Where this leads

33 stars in the atlas.