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Models, memory, and personas
How language models work, what memory changes, and how a persona holds together.
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A large language model is not artificial intelligence
There's no intelligence in there, just text prediction by a math formula. What an LLM really is, and why calling it AI gets you to use it wrong.
The 2017 paper that every AI chatbot is built on
The whole industry rides on a short chain of papers. Shannon, word2vec, the transformer, RLHF. Walk it once and the miracle goes away.
I stopped trusting AI headlines, so I built a course
I went back to the papers and rebuilt the path from language-model mechanics to working systems. AI Academy is the map that came out of those notes.
How I implemented corporate AI for 15 employees and a continuous customer flow
A client implementation with employee memory, company knowledge, live product data, Slack and WhatsApp on a $921 monthly infrastructure and API budget.