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AI Basics
The groundwork: what AI actually is, how it works, and why it gets things wrong.
Lesson 01What is AI?
Why does ChatGPT give you a different reply every time you send the same request? Four terms explain it: AI, Model, LLM and Chatbot.
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Lesson 02How does AI think?
Why does a reply from ChatGPT or Claude appear piece by piece? Because the model reads and writes in small units called Tokens, and Arabic splits into more of them.
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Lesson 03Prompt: how do you ask for exactly what you want?
Why does ChatGPT sometimes give you a generic reply you can't use? Usually because the request itself is missing something. Meet the Prompt, and four questions that show what it lacks.
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Lesson 04Why does AI forget what you told it?
Why does ChatGPT or Claude remember something old but forget what you just said? Because the model only sees the chat's Context; Memory is how facts about you reach it.
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Lesson 05Why does AI lie so confidently?
ChatGPT can answer you with total confidence about something that doesn't exist. That's a Hallucination. Here is one question that exposes it, and rules you set once in settings.
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Lesson 0607 minWhy so many AI models?
The same Claude question produced seven trips from Haiku and one from Sonnet: learn to choose a model by task, speed and cost, then check the result yourself.
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