What AI can do, and its limits
Understand in plain words how models and agents work, what they do well and where they go wrong.
9 lessons · 1 quiz · 1 h 20 min · completion badge
- Explain simply how a language model produces an answer.
- Describe what an agent adds to a model through tools and delegation.
- Recognise the main limits: hallucinations, outdated knowledge, overconfidence, calculation and long documents.
- Use Learnya’s guardrails to make these limits visible and recoverable.
- Explain where your data is processed and what happens to it.
- Who it is for
- Anyone who uses or will use AI at work and wants to know when to trust it.
- Prerequisites
- None
- Duration
- 1 h 20 min
- Level
- Foundation
What the course covers.
- 01How a language AI works2 lessons
- Predicting what comes next in a text8 min
You understand the basic mechanism of a language model and what it means for you.
- From model to agent9 min
You see what an agent adds to a model on its own: tools, a loop of actions and agents working in parallel.
- Predicting what comes next in a text8 min
- 02What AI does well2 lessons
- The strengths of language10 min
You identify the writing and transformation tasks where a model is most reliable.
- Search, act, chain9 min
You discover the tasks only an agent with tools can carry out, from documented research to automations.
- The strengths of language10 min
- 03The known limits3 lessons
- Hallucinations7 min
You know what a hallucination is, where it appears most and how to neutralise it.
- Outdated knowledge and overconfidence9 min
You spot an answer based on old knowledge and you neutralise the model’s tendency to agree with you.
- Calculation and long documents9 min
You know why a model makes calculation errors and misses details in a long document, and how to avoid it.
- Hallucinations7 min
- 04Guardrails, confidentiality and sovereignty2 lessons
- How Learnya reduces the risks7 min
You link each known limit to the Learnya guardrail that makes it visible and recoverable.
- Confidentiality and sovereignty7 min
You know where your data is processed, what happens to it and how to share only what is necessary.
- How Learnya reduces the risks7 min
- ✓Final quiz6 questions