Understand AI from zero to the frontier—and know what to verify.
This is a plain-language, source-forward guide to what artificial intelligence is, how to use it, and how to review it in context. Build a learning route around your purpose, stakes, and time—without creating an account or handing over your email.
Eleven sections, twenty pages—and a route shaped by your actual use.
Most "learn AI" content is either a sales funnel for a paid course or a wall of jargon with nothing to click through to. This project exists to be neither — a self-contained reference you can read once or come back to for years.
Not sure where to begin?
Answer what brought you here and how much time you have — this page routes you to the right pages, no guessing required.
Where AI actually came from
A sourced timeline from Turing's 1950 paper through this year's frontier releases — 17 turning points, each with primary-source links.
How it actually works
The mechanics in plain English — neural networks, training, attention, tokens — plus a visual map of how AI, machine learning, and generative AI relate.
How to actually use it well
The real working methods: prompt structure, image and video prompting, agent design, and the vibe-coding workflow — with worked examples.
Concrete tasks, worked examples
Research synthesis, meeting notes, drafting, code help, and more — each with a real example and a named human-review step.
Which AI tool should you use?
Ten pages: general assistants head-to-head, plus dedicated comparisons for research, meetings/knowledge, writing, marketing, automation, coding, images, video, and audio/voice tools — all sourced to official pricing and privacy pages.
Full workflows, not just tasks
Ten complete playbooks — manual, semi-automated, and fully-implemented versions of each, with build steps, risks, and real KPIs.
Prompts you paste, not forms you fill
Eighteen ready-to-run prompt templates across Strategy, Operations, Marketing, Client Work, and Governance — your AI tool does the drafting.
Where things stand right now
Today's model landscape, the real numbers behind the hype, and the genuinely unresolved debate about artificial general intelligence.
237 free resources, sourced and searchable
Every resource this project draws from — official docs, papers, and tutorials — organized by topic and searchable by keyword.
Who built this, and why
The sourcing standard this project holds itself to, and how to flag a broken link or an error.
The standard this site holds itself to
Anyone can claim to be "fully sourced." Here's what that actually means in practice, and where to check it for yourself.
Every claim links to a named source
A company's own announcement, a peer-reviewed paper, or an established outlet's reporting — not a vague "studies show." See the sourcing standard in full.
No account, no data collection, no ads
Nothing here is gated behind an email address, and nothing tracks you to sell you something later. That's not a marketing line — check the About page for the actual policy.
Disagreements are shown, not hidden
Where credentialed experts genuinely disagree — like whether current AI is close to AGI — this site presents both sides on the Frontier & AGI page instead of picking a winner.
Built for anyone starting from zero — no background assumed.
What's actually here
Three ways to start
Read it front to back
History → Concepts → Techniques → Use Cases → Tools → Templates → Frontier & AGI, in order — about 60–75 minutes for the full picture.
Not sure? Let Start Here route you
Answer what brought you here and how much time you have, and Start Here points you to the right pages directly.
Bookmark and return
The model landscape moves fast. The Frontier page and Library are the pages most worth revisiting as things change.
Start with where AI actually came from.
Turing, Dartmouth, two winters, and the transformer — the sourced history, in full.
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