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How AI Chatbots Work, Without the Jargon

1 episode · made by @theeshook

How AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini work, explained for someone with no technical background: what a language model is, how it is trained, what predicting the next word means, why they sometimes make things up, what they are good and bad at, and what is genuinely uncertain. No hype in either direction.

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  1. Why Chatbots Hallucinate and How Interpretability Works Episode 1 · 14 October 2026 · 16 min

    How AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini work, explained for someone with no technical background: what a language model is, how it is trained, what predicting the next word means, why they sometimes make things…

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