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Generative AI Fundamentals

How language models produce text, what tokens and context are, how to prompt well, and where these systems fall short. No maths degree required.

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Level
Beginner
Time
4 lessons, 33 min
Languages
English

What you will learn

  • Explain what a generative model does and what it does not do
  • Describe tokens, context windows and next-token prediction in plain language
  • Write clear prompts that give a model the context and constraints it needs
  • Recognise hallucination, bias and privacy risks, and design around them

Curriculum

  1. Module 1

    Foundations

    What these models are and how to work with them.

    1. What generative AI is7 min
    2. Language models and tokens9 min
    3. Prompting and context9 min
    4. Limitations and responsible use8 min

More lessons in this course are being written. Published lessons are complete and ready to read.

Before you start

Instructor

Fikri Marzuki

Software engineer working across backend platforms, frontend and mobile. Writes Courses to explain the ideas he wishes someone had explained to him plainly.

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