In part 3 of my 4-part series on AI Literacy and Informed Skepticism I channel Adrej Karpathy to answer the question “How Does AI Work?” A walk through pre-training, fine-tuning and reinforcement learning and Claude attempts a super funny joke about pelicans. derekcbriggs.github.io/posts/2026-0...
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AI Literacy and Informed Skepticism Part 3: How Does AI Work? – Derek C. Briggs
The third in a four-part series on AI Literacy. A full walk through how LLMs are built—pre-training, fine-tuning, and reinforcement learning.
