What AI actually is

Outcome: You can explain, in your own words, what AI is good at and where it fails.

Draft shell. Real lesson copy + video go here. Structure follows the course spine: Outcome → Concept → Build → Run.

Outcome

By the end you can decide, for any task, whether AI is the right tool — and spot the cases where it will confidently get things wrong.

Concept

A short, honest mental model of large language models: pattern completion, not understanding; capability boundaries; where hallucination comes from.

Build

A quick hands-on: give the same task to a chat assistant three ways and compare the results.

Run

How to keep a healthy skepticism as a habit — the questions to ask before you trust an AI output.