Chapter 1
The giant digital vacuum cleaner
Chapter 2
The mysterious black box
Chapter 3
When robots make things up
Chapter 4
The battle for the internet's words
Ch 2 · The mysterious black box
007skaty The Black Box Problem
Inside the black box where the algorithms hide, We found a golden bridge glowing deep on the inside.
BETA
007skaty Decode pixelated images to discover how AI reconstructs missing details from unknown sources.
007skaty Neural networks process information by breaking text into fragments, calculating numerical relationships, and completely erasing the original source text.
007skaty Neural networks blend training data together, erasing the identity of original source websites.
Quiz
What is the term for the mathematical structure inside an AI that mimics the connections of the human brain?
Quiz
Why is a standard AI chatbot unable to show you the exact book it learned a fact from?
Fun Fact
Keyboard memory trick: A language model doesn't actually know facts; it is just a super-advanced version of your phone's predictive text keyboard!
Quiz
What does 'lossy compression' mean when applied to an artificial intelligence model?
Quiz
Approximately how small is a typical AI model file compared to the raw training data used to build it?
Glossary
black box (noun)
A system or device whose internal operations are hidden, while its inputs and outputs are known. In May 2024, Anthropic mapped millions of concepts inside Claude to explain how the algorithm processes information.
A system or device whose internal operations are hidden, while its inputs and outputs are known. In May 2024, Anthropic mapped millions of concepts inside Claude to explain how the algorithm processes information.
Quiz
Which field of computer science focuses specifically on making AI decisions understandable to humans?