Anthropic Academy Courses

AI Capabilities and Limitations

An introductory course about how AI works

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About this course

This course gives learners a working mental model of how modern generative AI systems behave and why. It's the companion to the 4D Framework: where that course teaches the human competencies (Delegation, Description, Discernment, Diligence), this one teaches the machine properties those competencies are responding to.


By the end, learners can look at an unexpected AI output and recognize which kind of unexpected it is, locate roughly where on a capability-to-limitation continuum their task landed, and respond with a targeted fix.

Curriculum

  • Getting started
  • Intro to AI Capabilities and Limitations
  • What We Mean by AI
  • How AI Gets Its Character
  • Next Token Prediction
  • Next Token Prediction
  • Try it out
  • Knowledge
  • Knowledge
  • Try it out
  • Working Memory
  • Working Memory
  • Try it out
  • Steerability
  • Steerability
  • Try it out
  • Putting it all together and next steps
  • When Properties Collide
  • Next Steps
  • Course Quiz

About this course

This course gives learners a working mental model of how modern generative AI systems behave and why. It's the companion to the 4D Framework: where that course teaches the human competencies (Delegation, Description, Discernment, Diligence), this one teaches the machine properties those competencies are responding to.


By the end, learners can look at an unexpected AI output and recognize which kind of unexpected it is, locate roughly where on a capability-to-limitation continuum their task landed, and respond with a targeted fix.

Curriculum

  • Getting started
  • Intro to AI Capabilities and Limitations
  • What We Mean by AI
  • How AI Gets Its Character
  • Next Token Prediction
  • Next Token Prediction
  • Try it out
  • Knowledge
  • Knowledge
  • Try it out
  • Working Memory
  • Working Memory
  • Try it out
  • Steerability
  • Steerability
  • Try it out
  • Putting it all together and next steps
  • When Properties Collide
  • Next Steps
  • Course Quiz