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Understanding AI

Understanding AI is our free eBook: a friendly, visual guide that takes you from 'what is intelligence, artificial?' to how real AI products are built. It's the ideal primer before the workshop or bootcamp — and a genuinely useful read on its own.

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Field guide

Understanding AI

A calm, clear field guide to artificial intelligence.

80+ pagesPDF

Inside the book

What you'll learn

Seven short chapters that take you from 'what is AI, really?' to building your first project — the same schematic, no-jargon approach as our programs.

01What is intelligence, artificial?
02How machines learn from examples
03Neural networks, drawn simply
04The algorithms behind your day
05How AI products are actually built
06Using AI well — and responsibly
07Your first AI project

A page from the book

Every idea, drawn simply

Instead of dense equations, the book leans on clear diagrams like this one — the same maps we use to teach in person.

Chapter 3 · Neural networks, drawn simply

DataModelPrediction

Signal flows left to right — data becomes a prediction. That's the whole idea.

Read it, then build it

The eBook is the perfect start. When you're ready to build with guidance, the workshop and bootcamp are waiting.