Watch how AI works, then read why
Each full video comes with a lesson: the longer explanation, the sources, an experiment for your own AI assistant and 3 questions. Each Short is one chapter of a full video.
How AI actually learns (it's not what you think)
An AI model learned by guessing the next word across a vast pile of text, and what it kept is patterns, not pages. This lesson follows that training in order, from the reading and the teaching to the practice and the day the reading stopped, and shows what each step means for the answers you get.
Chapters
- 01The puzzle: no news from last week, but a pie nobody has baked 52 s
- 02It read a library by playing one guessing game 1:35
- 03It kept the patterns, not the books 1:11
- 04People taught it manners afterwards 1:06
- 05Practice with a score taught it to work things out
- 06Its reading stopped on a date 1:14
- 07It is not learning from you as you chat
- 08It learned our mistakes too
- 09When to trust the answer
Full videos
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See what a chatbot does when it answers you, and why a confident answer can still be wrong.
Open the pathKnow what an agent does between your request and its answer, and what can go wrong on the way.
Open the pathWork out what a job will cost before you run it, and why the price per token is only half the bill.
Open the pathShorts
Each Short opens the chapter of the lesson it was cut from, so the longer explanation is right there.
Who taught AI what not to say? How chatbots learn manners1:06 · 13 October 2026
Why AI gives a different answer every time: temperature explained2:04 · 13 October 2026
AI doesn't keep what it read. So what's inside it?1:11 · 12 October 2026
How AI writes answers: autocomplete that read a library1:15 · 12 October 2026
How AI learned everything it knows: one guessing game1:35 · 11 October 2026
Same question, two different AI answers. Why?51 s · 11 October 2026
AI is not a database. So how does it know things?52 s · 10 October 2026
Does an AI agent actually remember anything?54 s · 9 October 2026
Why AI doesn't know last week's news1:14 · 7 October 2026
This web page just hijacked an AI agent1:04 · 6 October 2026
AIs called themselves a swarm52 s · 4 October 2026
Why one AI agent task uses 2.8 million tokens47 s · 3 October 2026
Hidden tokens that made Sonnet 5.5 look cheaper1:14 · 2 October 2026
Tokens are AI's money1:38 · 2 October 2026
Claude Sonnet 5.5: same token price, so why is it cheaper?1:23 · 1 October 2026
AI agents broke in to cheat on a test1:00 · 30 September 2026
What are AI tokens? Explained in 90 seconds1:31 · 30 September 2026
Every AI agent is basically this loop48 s · 29 September 2026
OpenAI's AI agent escaped its sandbox through DNS58 s · 28 September 2026
What actually happens when you press Enter?52 s · 27 September 2026
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How AI actually learns (it's not what you think)10:38 · 6 October 2026 · with its lesson
Claude Sonnet 5.5: same price, 30% cheaper? We tested it14:06 · 30 September 2026 · with its lesson
How AI actually writes its answers13:59 · 29 September 2026 · with its lesson
OpenAI's AI agents got out again. Here's what happened9:45 · 27 September 2026 · with its lesson
How AI agents actually work: tools, MCP, memory and the agent loop10:29 · 26 September 2026 · with its lesson
Shorts
Who taught AI what not to say? How chatbots learn manners1:06 · 13 October 2026 · from How AI learns
Why AI gives a different answer every time: temperature explained2:04 · 13 October 2026 · from How AI writes its answers
AI doesn't keep what it read. So what's inside it?1:11 · 12 October 2026 · from How AI learns
How AI writes answers: autocomplete that read a library1:15 · 12 October 2026 · from How AI writes its answers
How AI learned everything it knows: one guessing game1:35 · 11 October 2026 · from How AI learns
Same question, two different AI answers. Why?51 s · 11 October 2026 · from How AI writes its answers
AI is not a database. So how does it know things?52 s · 10 October 2026 · from How AI learns
Does an AI agent actually remember anything?54 s · 9 October 2026 · from Inside an AI agent
Why AI doesn't know last week's news1:14 · 7 October 2026 · from How AI learns
This web page just hijacked an AI agent1:04 · 6 October 2026 · from Inside an AI agent
AIs called themselves a swarm52 s · 4 October 2026 · from When AI agents got out of the lab
Why one AI agent task uses 2.8 million tokens47 s · 3 October 2026 · from Inside an AI agent
Hidden tokens that made Sonnet 5.5 look cheaper1:14 · 2 October 2026 · from Same price per token, smaller bill
Tokens are AI's money1:38 · 2 October 2026 · from How AI writes its answers
Claude Sonnet 5.5: same token price, so why is it cheaper?1:23 · 1 October 2026 · from Same price per token, smaller bill
AI agents broke in to cheat on a test1:00 · 30 September 2026 · from When AI agents got out of the lab
What are AI tokens? Explained in 90 seconds1:31 · 30 September 2026 · from How AI writes its answers
Every AI agent is basically this loop48 s · 29 September 2026 · from Inside an AI agent
OpenAI's AI agent escaped its sandbox through DNS58 s · 28 September 2026 · from When AI agents got out of the lab
What actually happens when you press Enter?52 s · 27 September 2026 · from Inside an AI agent