How AI works · Computer Science

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How AI works, plus Grade 9 data-transmission revision.

How AI works

1:14

How does AI work?

Neurons and weights, learning from mistakes, and predicting the next word.

neural networksbasics
1:13

How does AI read a sentence?

Tokens, embeddings and attention, stacked in layers to score the next token.

transformersattention
1:17

What are billions of parameters?

What a parameter is, how big a billion is, and why big models need racks of GPUs.

scalememory
1:26

How do networks learn from errors?

Loss as a landscape, gradient descent and backpropagation.

traininggradients
1:24

How is a chatbot trained?

Pretraining, fine-tuning and human feedback turn a text predictor into an assistant.

LLMRLHF
1:23

What does temperature do?

Scores become probabilities, and temperature sharpens or flattens them.

samplingLLM
1:19

How does AI draw pictures?

Diffusion models add noise to learn, then remove it to create, steered by a prompt.

imagesgenerative
1:15

How can AI use your own documents?

Retrieval-augmented generation: embed, retrieve, augment the prompt, generate.

RAGembeddings
1:14

Why does AI make things up?

Likely is not the same as true: gaps, snowballing errors, and what helps.

reliabilityLLM
1:16

How much can an AI remember?

The context window, forgetting, the cost of long inputs, and workarounds.

memoryLLM
1:09

What is an AI agent?

A model in a loop with tools and guardrails.

agentstools
1:12

Can AI be biased?

Skewed data, where bias comes from, proxies, and how to audit and fix it.

fairnessdata
1:10

What is overfitting?

Underfit, good fit and overfit curves, train vs test error, and the fixes.

generalisationtraining