--- title: "How AI works in Super Simple Terms!!!" url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-ai-works-in-super-simple-terms--ufshbu9qj source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-BiW5srMFQ type: video:youtube source: "StatQuest with Josh Starmer" published: 2026-05-31T07:43:34.291Z updated: 2026-05-31T07:55:01.611Z tags: ["ai", "machine-learning", "llm", "neural-networks"] reading_time: 22 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How AI works in Super Simple Terms!!! **[StatQuest with Josh Starmer](https://daily.dev/sources/statquest)** · 22 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A beginner-friendly explanation of how AI works, using a simple linear regression analogy to build intuition. Covers how prompts are converted to numbers, how a model generates words one at a time, what 'parameters' mean in the context of large models like ChatGPT or DeepSeek, how training works by iteratively fitting a shape to trillions of data points, and how alignment fine-tunes a pre-trained model to respond to real-world prompts. The three core ideas: AI fits a complex equation to massive data, training is a step-by-step iterative process, and alignment adapts a base model to specific tasks. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Medium](https://daily.dev/posts/medium-mocmywq0j) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The Fundamentals of AI: What every curious person should know about how language models work](https://daily.dev/posts/the-fundamentals-of-ai-what-every-curious-person-should-know-about-how-language-models-work-nfjhvcwso) · Cisco · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#machine-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/machine-learning), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#neural-networks](https://daily.dev/tags/neural-networks) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-ai-works-in-super-simple-terms--ufshbu9qj)