AI Basics

You can’t open a news app or scroll through social media these days without seeing someone mentioning AI. Whether it’s a student using ChatGPT to draft an essay or a coder using Copilot to fix a bug, this technology has firmly parked itself in our daily lives. But if you strip away the hype and […]

You’ve probably seen the term tossed around in board meetings or tech news, usually accompanied by a picture of a glowing brain or a robot shaking hands with a human. But stripping away the sci-fi hype, how machine learning works is actually much more grounded—and fascinating—than the movies suggest. I remember the first time I

You’ve probably heard the term thrown around at dinner parties or seen it splashed across news headlines. Maybe you’ve even nodded along while secretly wondering, “Okay, but what actually is it?” You aren’t alone. Artificial Intelligence for beginners can feel like a maze of buzzwords. Between “neural networks,” “machine learning,” and “generative pre-trained transformers,” it’s

You can’t escape it. It feels like overnight, every meeting, every marketing email, and every piece of software suddenly revolves around “AI.” One minute, we were all just trying to remember our passwords, and the next, we’re being told a “Generative AI” is going to revolutionize how we draft an email. It’s overwhelming. And if

Let’s just get this out of the way. The first thing everyone says about neural networks is that they’re a “black box”. It’s this magical, unknowable thing that somehow “thinks.” Frankly, that’s not a very helpful way to start. It’s also not entirely true. We do understand, in detail, how they work. We built them.

We talk about AI like it’s a tidal wave coming for us in the future. Will it take our jobs? Will it become our boss? We’re so busy staring at the horizon that we’ve failed to notice our feet are already wet. The biggest impacts of artificial intelligence aren’t in the splashy demos of robot

Chances are you used artificial intelligence before you even had your first cup of coffee this morning. Maybe you woke up and asked Alexa or Siri what the weather was. That’s AI. You grabbed your phone and scrolled through your social media feed. The reason that feed was either uncannily relevant or bizarrely random is