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How AI & LLMs Work: A Fast-Track Crash Course for Busy Professionals

8h 9m 42s
English
Paid

Course description

Forget about months of preparation and complex mathematics — understand how modern AI models actually work in just a few hours. This course is designed for professionals who need to quickly gain a technical understanding of AI without delving into programming.
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Why This Course Stands Out

You already understand that AI directly impacts your career, products, and business strategy. However, delving into transformers, model architecture, and machine learning can be complex and time-consuming.

This course addresses the problem by:

  • Skipping mountains of theory,
  • Providing an intuitive, visual understanding of AI,
  • All in just a few hours, without a specialized educational background.

This is the only course that provides a deep technical understanding of LLM through a real implementation of GPT-2 in spreadsheets.

Who This Course Is For

The course is ideal for STEM professionals:

  • Software and Web Developers
  • Engineers and Scientists
  • Product and Project Managers
  • Technical Sales and Marketing Specialists
  • Leaders and Directors shaping AI strategy

No ML experience is required—just a technical background.

What You Will Master

Based on a spreadsheet implementation of GPT-2, you will:

  • Understand how large language models work—very quickly
  • Break down all key components: tokenization, embeddings, attention, transformer layers
  • Develop genuine AI literacy for managing products and teams
  • Lay the foundation for further learning and your own AI projects

Why Spreadsheets

You don’t need to know how to program or have knowledge of advanced mathematics.

The course uses a no-code approach based on spreadsheets, making complex principles:

  • visual,
  • interactive,
  • and easily memorable.

You won’t just watch—you will explore the model from the inside, step by step.

Practical Outcome

By the end of the course, you will clearly understand how transformers power models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Llama, and you will also gain a ready tool in spreadsheet form for independent experimentation.

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All Course Lessons (6)

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000 How to attend this class asynchronously or on-demand Demo
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001 How AI & LLMs Work_ A Fast-Track Crash Course for Busy Professionals
01:36:58
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002 How LLMs Work Class Session 2 Embeddings
01:31:16
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003 How LLMs Work Class Session 3 Neural Networks and Backpropagation
01:40:33
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004 How LLMs Work Class Session 4 Multi-head attention
01:31:24
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005 How LLMs Work Class Session 5 Putting it all together
01:46:18

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