Chapter 1

Building a brain from scratch

Chapter 2

The art of practice and error

Chapter 3

The magic of human language

Chapter 4

Painting with pixels

Ch 1 · Building a brain from scratch
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007skaty Computer scientists build digital neurons inspired by biological brain cells.

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007skaty The Common Crawl Dataset

Feeding the machine with billions of pages from the open web.

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Deep understanding is built by layering simple observations.

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007skaty Stacked hidden layers allow deep neural networks to solve complex problems.

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The digital neuron inspired by biology

007skaty Digital nodes process information by multiplying inputs by mathematical weights and passing them forward only when they cross a specific threshold.

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The power of hidden layers

007skaty Deep networks stack multiple hidden layers to detect abstract details like human faces.

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Ancient Smart Blocks
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007skaty Stack the ancient smart blocks to learn how AI actually makes decisions.

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Fun Fact

AI brain size: A honeybee has 960,000 neurons, while early neural networks had fewer than 100.

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Gossip

Would you trust an AI doctor?

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Quiz

What do artificial neurons use to adjust the importance of incoming signals?

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007skaty The ancient mathematical origins of modern computer algorithms

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Who created the first mathematical model of a neuron in 1943?

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007skaty Computers translate real-world inputs into numbers.

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How many layers did the historic AlexNet neural network use in 2012?

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What is the main purpose of hidden layers in deep learning?

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From whose Latinized name does the word algorithm originate?

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In which historic city did al-Khwarizmi develop his mathematical concepts?

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How does a computer represent a black-and-white image for a neural network?

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What famous 1998 database of handwritten digits is widely used to train computer vision?

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