AI Concepts Primer

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:54:30 +0000

A basic primer on how AI works, why it doesn’t learn, and why what you load into the context really matters.

Introduction

This blog post aims to provide a very simplistic introduction to the concepts of AI. It’s going to do this through a worked example for finding the answer to “Life, The Universe, and Everything”. In this example, we are just going to conduct our own “Deep Thought” experiment to narrow down all possible answers to just a single one. We will then look at how incorrect answers and hallucinations can arise, before applying the basic concepts we have learnt to some real-world AI applications.

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AI Concepts Primer

Introduction