AI Foundations for Business: A (non-technical) overview

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🤝 Your team not maximizing Claude? I run 1:1 and team AI workshops for companies doing $10M+ per year: https://aibuilder.academy/yt/CCbcPJXBqgw Most AI tutorials are either made for engineers or just scratch the surface. Here, I explain the foundations of how today's AI agents work so that non-technical users can maximize them. References [1] https://tiktokenizer.vercel.app/ [2] https://openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/ [3] https://benchlm.ai/ Intro - 0:00 Intelligence & models - 0:48 Large language models - 4:00 Machine Learning - 7:33 Train-time Scaling - 10:31 Autocomplete → chatbots - 11:38 Context window - 12:43 Tokens - 14:50 Tool calling - 17:30 Chatbots → agents - 19:28 Reasoning - 19:57 Test-time scaling - 22:28 Agent harness - 25:09 How to steer agents - 26:46 Tip 1: Agent empathy - 29:03 Tip 2: Start small - 31:20 Tip 3: Compute ↔ intelligence - 34:20 Recap - 36:12

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