Chatbots and language models

How LLMs read, write and reason

Course 6 of 10, Ages 12+

1. How chatbots write: Guess the next word
2. Tokens: Words in pieces
3. How giant models learn: Read, practise, get feedback
4. Context windows: An AI’s working memory
5. Temperature: Creative or careful answers
6. Attention: The idea behind transformers
7. Step-by-step reasoning: Why thinking out loud helps
8. When AI makes things up: Hallucinations and fact-checks
9. Fine-tuning: Teaching a model a new speciality
10. Using chatbots wisely: Getting the best from AI helpers