Learning path · Beginner · 5h
How language models actually work
A practical path from what a model is to why it fails, so you use assistants well and explain them honestly.
- Any assistant
- ai
- learning-path
Inside this learning path
- Explain what a language model does and does not do, predict where it will fail, and choose when to use one.
- Skills: Explaining tokens, context and prediction, Recognising hallucination and its causes, Choosing tasks that suit a model, Reading a model card
- Time
- 5h
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- 01Module 1: What a model is
Module · 1h 15m · The mechanics in plain terms: text becomes tokens, tokens become predictions, predictions become answers.
- 02Module 2: Where models fail and how to use them anyway
Module · 1h 15m · The failure modes, what causes them, and the task choices that keep you on the model's strong side.
