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Wait... What? Who Teaches AI?: Artificial Intelligence for Real People, No Pretending Required
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Artificial intelligence is everywhere. Understanding it shouldn't require pretending you understood the explanation.
Have you ever heard words like algorithms, machine learning, neural networks, LLMs, tokens, parameters, or generative AI and quietly thought, Wait... what?
This book is for you.
Wait... What? Who Teaches AI? explains artificial intelligence for curious people who want to understand what is actually happening behind the technology, without needing a technical background.
Through everyday situations, clear comparisons, humor, and plain English, Fabiana Vilela takes complicated ideas and makes them visible before introducing the technical terminology.
Inside, you'll discover:
- What artificial intelligence actually is
- Where AI came from and who helped build the field
- How machines learn from data and examples
- What algorithms, machine learning, and neural networks really mean
- How generative AI and large language models work
- What tokens, prompts, context, and parameters are
- Why AI can sound confident and still be wrong
- How recommendation systems seem to know what you want
- What your phone may actually know about you
- How AI can see, hear, generate, and take actions
- Where artificial intelligence may be heading next
- Why privacy, bias, responsibility, and human judgment still matter
This is not a programming manual and it is not a book written only for technology professionals.
It is an invitation to finally understand the conversation.
First the idea. Then the technical name. No pretending required.
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