Learn to use AI

How models work

How models work is a unit of 7 lessons in Rabbithole's Learn to use AI course, at levels 1 to 2.

Lessons

1. Machine learning: computers that learn from dataLevel 1
2. Supervised learning: learning from labeled examplesLevel 2
3. Unsupervised learning: learning without labelsLevel 2
4. Neural networkLevel 1
5. Deep learning, in plain wordsLevel 1
6. Embeddings: turning words into numbersLevel 1
7. When a model only memorisesLevel 2

Sources

These lessons draw on 12 sources. The most used:

• MIT 6.S191: Introduction to Deep Learning
• Stanford CS224N: Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning, Spring 2024
• MIT 6.S191: Introduction to Deep Learning (2026)
• Machine Learning Crash Course
• Microsoft Learn — AI Fluency learning path
• Adversarial Machine Learning: A Taxonomy and Terminology of Attacks and Mitigations (NIST AI 100-2 E2025)
• Deep Learning
• Lil'Log

All units in Learn to use AI