The Welch Labs Illustrated Guide to AI offers unique perspectives on artificial intelligence through hands-on exploration and richly detailed graphics that give readers a visceral understanding of how AI actually works. From the fundamental perceptron to cutting-edge AI video generation, each chapter combines thought-provoking exercises with supporting code to illuminate the key breakthroughs and persistent mysteries in AI development. The book is a great fit for both seasoned professionals and students.

Chapter Listing

1. THE PERCEPTRON - ChatGPT is made from 100 million of these

2. GRADIENT DESCENT - The misconception that almost stopped AI

3. BACKPROPAGATION - The F=ma of artificial intelligence

4. DEEP LEARNING - The geometry of depth

5. ALEXNET - The moment we stopped understanding AI

6. NEURAL SCALING LAWS - AI can’t cross this line and we don’t know why

7. MECHANISTIC INTERPRETABILITY - The dark matter of AI

8. ATTENTION - How DeepSeek rewrote the transformer

9. VIDEO AND IMAGE GENERATION - AI videos are brownian motion backwards

Details

• Download is a high quality 376 page pdf file

• Due to large number of images, pdf is 200MB+

• We recommend configuring your pdf viewing software to “Two Page”, “Facing Page” or “Spread” mode - so you can view both left and right pages in each spread at once.

• Each chapter includes supporting python code that walks through the key results from that chapter, and there’s a supporting github repo as well that’s a bit more more comprehensive.

• Each chapter also includes exercises

• Each chapter goes along with a Welch Labs video - the book is the best way to get deeper into each video’s topic.

• The book is great for self study, AI courses, or just looks great on your coffee table.

• ISBN: 9798991923415