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Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias
Fundamentals of AI, Part 1 | 148
39 minutes Posted Aug 20, 2026 at 10:00 am.
Revisiting the AI Fundamentals, Two Years On
AI Is 70 Years Old, Generative AI Is Not
Overhyped Now, Underhyped Later
Training Versus Inference, Explained
Is an LLM Just Fancy Autocomplete?
What Multimodal Actually Means
ImageNet, AlexNet, and the Deep Learning Breakthrough
Open Weights Versus Closed Models
What Model Weights Actually Are
Recapping Part One and What's Next
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Send us Fan Mail AI may feel like it arrived overnight, but its foundations have been decades in the making. In part one of a refreshed Foundations of AI series, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias unpack the essential concepts association leaders need to understand in today’s rapidly evolving AI landscape. They trace the convergence of compute, data, and algorithms that fueled the generative AI boom, challenge assumptions about whether we’ve already reached some definitions of AGI, and explai...