AI & LLM Literacy — Beginner

AI & LLMs — How They Actually Work: 7 topics and 15 interactive cards with runnable examples and quizzes.

Topics

1. What Is an AI Language Model? — A Prediction Machine · Not a Brain, Not a Database
2. Tokens — How AI Reads Text — Words Become Numbers · Building a Tiny Vocabulary
3. How the CodeArc AI Tutor Works — Your Question Becomes a Prompt · No Memory & the Context Window
4. What Is a Prompt? — Instruction + Context + Question · Clearer Prompt, Better Answer
5. Why AI Gets Things Wrong — Hallucinations · Trust, but Verify
6. Similarity — How AI Finds "Related" Things — Turning Sentences Into Vectors · Cosine Similarity
7. Now You Try! — Your Turn at the Controls · Project: A Tiny Text Generator · Project: Fit a Chat Into the Window