AI and Generative AI Foundations
Introductory series on AI and generative AI: what they are, how they work, how they differ and what AGI means. For technical professionals and decision-makers.
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1. What AI is and how it evolved
AI as systems that use data and objectives to predict, classify, decide or control—systems that behave like specialists for a concrete task. The evolution from early heuristic rules to…
2. What generative AI actually is
How the technology emerged, from embeddings to the Transformer and scaling laws. Why one generative-AI foundation model can serve many different tasks. The anatomy of a real generative-AI…


