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How generative AI works, and why an answer can be persuasive and wrong.

Where it comes from

A career spent on how you know what you know.

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The answer looked right. It was wrong, and it was sure. This course opens the machine so you can see why: where the next word comes from, what the model read and what it never saw, why it forgets, how to pin it to a document so it stops inventing, and what happens to your own thinking when you let it do the thinking. Twenty lessons, nothing to install and no code: for anyone who uses these tools or lives with someone who does. After them you look at any AI answer the way a doctor looks at an X-ray.

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  1. 1E01 · Everything Is Numbers
    You trace what a scanner, a chat box or a phone threw away to turn your document into numbers, and check whether the wrong thing was lost.
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  2. 2E02 · The Pile That Reads You Back
    You leave able to name the pile somebody gathered behind any AI answer, and to build the count your own work needs.
  3. 3E03 · Why Your AI Doesn't Think
    You leave naming what each of four mind words hides, pointing to where the understanding lives, and asking questions that can be answered.
  4. 4E04 · Where Does The Next Word Come From
    You draw the loop that picks every next word, work the dial that sharpens or flattens it, and say whose job the checking is.
  5. 5E05 · What Did The Model Actually Read
    You leave able to predict where an artificial intelligence comes up thin, ask who measured its high-quality data, and test the Spanish label with your own voice.
  6. 6E06 · Is The New One Actually Better
    You leave with three questions for any AI score: better at what, measured how, and better for whom.
  7. 7E07 · Where Confident Wrong Answers Come From
    You run one check on any AI citation, in your own field's registry, before it matters.
  8. 8E08 · What Did The Model Just Forget
    You carry a working number for every AI, put what matters at the start or end, and read the notes the machine keeps about you.
  9. 9E09 · Anchor Your AI To A Document
    You attach your own document to an AI, make it hand back the passage it used, and read that passage against the claim before acting.
  10. 10E10 · When AI Thinks Step By Step
    You leave with one habit: check the single load-bearing step of any worked answer against the world, not the machine.
  11. 11E11 · The Six Dimensions Of Every Prompt
    You name the six dimensions every prompt already occupies, tell a choice you made from one made for you, and walk the six before blaming the machine.
  12. 12E12 · The Energy And Waste Of Using AI
    You read any AI energy or water number by asking what it includes, then find the boundary behind two figures that disagree.
  13. 13E13 · What's Free For You, What Costs Money
    You file any free AI banner under one of five kinds and name what it takes back from you.
  14. 14E14 · Pay Less, Depend Less
    You read the six dials on any AI bill, turn the three that were always yours, and know which errands deserve no meter at all.
  15. 15E15 · Tool Choice As Values Choice
    You answer four questions about any AI vendor from its own public documents and name the values cost your choice accepts.
  16. 16E16 · The Privacy Floor
    You leave with three kinds of personal detail that never go into any AI tool, and a two-second postcard test for any sentence before you send it.
  17. 17E17 · Cognitive Offloading And Your Own Mind
    You place any AI use on the line between helping and deciding, and keep three rules that hold your thinking.
  18. 18E18 · AI As Something You Check
    You run three checks on one AI answer that affects a decision you own, and you say who performs them when nobody is watching.
  19. 19E19 · When The Machine Runs Without You
    You leave with three questions for any system acting in your name: what it can touch, what bounds it, and who reads what it did.
  20. 20E20 · Model Collapse And What Comes Next
    You trace a 2024 model collapse headline back to the paper and name the one word that fell out on the way.

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$44.95 a month

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