AI for the Uninitiated Series

A Friendly Introduction to How Machines “Think” #

If you’ve ever looked at artificial intelligence from the outside and felt a little intimidated, this series is for you. AI for the Uninitiated is my attempt to take you gently, step by step, through the ideas that shape modern AI — without math, without jargon, and without assuming anything other than curiosity.

This is for all of us who come to AI from different paths — some technical, some creative, some philosophical. And yet, at the heart of it all, there’s a simple question: How do machines learn?

To answer that, we start with…

• the smallest unit of computation in the AI world: the neuron