"A Gentle Breeze Through Artificial Intelligence: A Beginner's Refresher" - Softcover

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Artificial intelligence is becoming part of everyday life. But understanding it should not feel like sitting an examination in a subject you have never studied.

What does it mean when a machine learns from examples? How does a language model form a response? Why can a confident answer still be wrong? And how can an ordinary person use AI without handing over their judgement?

A Gentle Breeze Through Artificial Intelligence: A Beginner's Refresher begins with these questions and builds understanding one layer at a time. At the fictional Willow Lane reading room, conversations, misread letters, creative projects, and everyday decisions make unfamiliar ideas easier to explore. Rather than asking you to start with code or advanced mathematics, the book begins with patterns you already recognise and questions you already know how to ask.

Across its eight parts, you will explore machine learning, training and testing, neural networks, language models, AI-assisted creativity, and the ways automated recommendations affect education, work, healthcare information, and public services. You'll also examine privacy, fairness, reliability, and the importance of checking evidence before acting on a model's output.

The concluding Value Edition turns explanation into practice. Short thought experiments, worked examples, visual learning pages, and a fourteen-day curiosity path invite you to break large problems into smaller questions, reason with everyday numbers, brainstorm alternatives, and test a useful idea. Original poetry and dialogue create room to reflect as you learn.

Written for curious readers from non-technical backgrounds, this is a guided refresher—not a programming manual and not a promise of instant expertise. Its purpose is simpler and more enduring: to help you ask clearer questions, recognise the limits of AI, and begin using what you understand with greater confidence.

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