AI Safety and Alignment: The Fundamentals
What the alignment problem actually is, the real techniques used to address it today (RLHF, Constitutional AI, red-teaming), and the institutions now evaluating frontier models.
What the alignment problem actually is, the real techniques used to address it today (RLHF, Constitutional AI, red-teaming), and the institutions now evaluating frontier models.
Why how you ask still matters even as models get more capable, the core techniques with the research behind them, and the shift toward structured, agent-ready prompting.
How RAG grounds LLM answers in real, up-to-date data instead of frozen training knowledge, the architecture behind it, and how it differs from fine-tuning.
How AI agents actually work under the hood: the plan-act-observe loop, tool use, and why 'agentic' is a spectrum rather than a single feature you either have or don't.
An in-depth analysis of TensorFlow, PyTorch, JAX, and how the framework landscape actually looks in 2026.
How reinforcement learning actually works, from Markov decision processes to Q-learning and policy gradients, and why it powers everything from game-playing agents to RLHF in LLMs.
What actually breaks when ML models move from a notebook to production, and the versioning, retraining, and monitoring practices that prevent it.
How SHAP, LIME, and attention visualization actually explain a model prediction, and why interpretability is becoming a regulatory requirement, not just a nice-to-have.
Exploring the next generation of neural network architectures and their potential impact.