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Lesson 1Week 1: The AI Mindset: From Search Engine to Personal Tutor

From search engine to study partner: how an LLM actually works

What you'll learn
  1. 1Explain how an LLM generates text token by token and why that differs from a search engine retrieving documents
  2. 2Describe what the context window is and predict when a long chat or a large paste will cause forgetting
  3. 3Explain why hallucinations happen and identify the output types that most urgently need verification
  4. 4Choose between a search engine and an AI assistant for a given study task and verify factual claims against a primary source

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