Learn how AI works
Free doodle lessons that explain artificial intelligence: 10 courses and 100 short lessons with examples, quizzes and read-aloud, for kids, teens and adults.
Every lesson has a “Like I’m 5” explanation, the big idea with real examples, a hands-on activity, two quiz questions and a takeaway. No sign-up: progress stays in your browser.
Courses
1. First steps with AI (Ages 3+)
What AI is, in kid-sized pieces
- Hello, AI
- Spot the pattern
- Machines all around
- Sort it out
- Talking helpers
- Robot senses
- Robots and AI
- Practice makes better
- Ask a grown-up
- Stay safe with AI
2. How machines learn (Ages 6+)
Examples, labels, rules and practice
- Teach Pip
- Rules or learning?
- Data is AI’s food
- Labels and names
- Good guess, bad guess
- How AI sees
- How AI listens
- Finding groups
- Learning from rewards
- AI that plays games
3. AI all around us (Ages 7+)
Search, maps, phones, farms and more
- Why apps suggest things
- How search finds answers
- Maps and traffic
- Translating languages
- Smart cameras
- Spam filters
- Forecasting the weather
- AI in health and science
- AI on farms
- Robots and self-driving cars
4. Inside the AI brain (Ages 10+)
Models, features, networks and training
- What’s a model?
- Features
- Decision trees
- Neural networks
- Training and testing
- Remembering vs understanding
- Learning from mistakes
- Thinking in chances
- Deep learning
- How AI recognises images
5. Data, the fuel of AI (Ages 11+)
Collecting, cleaning and reading data
- Collecting data
- Cleaning data
- Samples and fairness
- Spotting trends
- Averages and outliers
- Correlation vs causation
- Who labels the data?
- Synthetic data
- Big data and the cloud
- Know your dataset
6. Chatbots and language models (Ages 12+)
How LLMs read, write and reason
- How chatbots write
- Tokens
- How giant models learn
- Context windows
- Temperature
- Attention
- Step-by-step reasoning
- When AI makes things up
- Fine-tuning
- Using chatbots wisely
7. Creating with AI (Ages 10+)
Pictures, stories, music, code and credit
- Pictures from words
- The AI toolbox
- Prompting like a pro
- Writing stories with AI
- Music, voices and video
- Editing photos with AI
- AI that sees, hears and talks
- AI that writes code
- Credit and copying
- AI as a creative partner
8. Fair, safe and responsible AI (Ages 11+)
Bias, privacy, scams, wellbeing and rules
- Fair or unfair?
- Privacy and your data
- Spotting fakes
- Scams and AI
- AI and your wellbeing
- AI for everyone
- Explainable AI
- AI and the planet
- AI and jobs
- Rules for AI
9. Build with AI (Ages 14+)
APIs, embeddings, RAG, agents and evals
- Using an AI API
- Embeddings
- RAG: answers from your documents
- AI agents
- System prompts and tools
- Train your own classifier
- Testing your AI
- Speed, cost and tokens
- Shipping AI safely
- Build your own AI
10. Core and advanced AI (Adults)
The maths and research behind modern AI