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What Has Sabich Got to Do With AI?

This course explains AI through 1 sabich stand, in 21 short lessons of about 3 minutes each, for ages 8 to 80. The first lesson is live now, and the rest open lesson by lesson. Read it, or listen to it.

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  • About 1 hour
  • Transcript on every lesson
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AI Sabich: a cheerful stuffed pita with fried eggplant and a hard-boiled egg peeking out, who runs Boker Tov, his sabich stand in the shuk, under a sign that reads Boker Tov

How it works

Read, try, notice

Every lesson is one small idea at one sabich stand, told by the stand keeper himself, in plain English. You read it in about 3 minutes, you try one thing, and you start noticing AI in your own day.

  • Read

    There are 21 lessons, and each one carries 1 idea in about 3 minutes. The transcript is the lesson: word for word, no summary, no jargon.

  • Try

    Every lesson asks you to predict, to picture a scene, or to do one small thing that week. You answer before you peek. That is how the idea sticks.

  • Notice

    By the last pita, you can name what AI is doing when your phone unlocks by face, when the bank blocks a card, and when a chat answer sounds confident and wrong.

The narration

One language, one honest note

Every lesson is written in English. The spoken narration is read in the same voice, and it lands here lesson by lesson. The words you read are the words you will hear. Corrections are welcome, always.

English first

The original. The words on the page were written first, lesson by lesson, and the voice in the player reads exactly those words.

Read today, listen as it lands

Every lesson is fully readable right now. The narration is added lesson by lesson, in the same voice, and a lesson never depends on sound.

Corrections welcome

If a line sounds wrong to you, I want to hear it. Note the lesson and the words, and send it through the contact form.

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The course

8 servings, 21 lessons, about 1 hour

From the dark shuk before sunrise to robots with hands. Every serving stands on its own, and the whole meal takes about an hour.

  • Serving 1

    The Shuk Before Sunrise

    foundations

    3 lessons · 10 minutes

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  • Serving 2

    The Three Things Machines Learn

    classical machine learning

    3 lessons · 7.5 minutes

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  • Serving 3

    The Stand With a Thousand Eyes

    deep learning and perception

    2 lessons · 6 minutes

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  • Serving 4

    The Cook Who Invents New Dishes

    generative AI and LLMs

    3 lessons · 9.5 minutes

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  • Serving 5

    The Stand That Thinks for Itself

    AI agents

    3 lessons · 9.5 minutes

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  • Serving 6

    When AI Gets a Body

    embodied AI and robots

    3 lessons · 10.5 minutes

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  • Serving 7

    The Stand You Can Trust

    AI ethics and governance

    2 lessons · 6.5 minutes

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  • Serving 8

    The Wise Regular

    limits, meaning, and living with AI

    2 lessons · 7 minutes

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Who it is for

8 to 80, one counter

If you are 8

You already know the shuk. The course only adds the words for what the stand keeper is really doing: predicting, sorting, learning from examples. Read it with a grown-up if you like.

If you are 38

The headlines call it magic or menace, and it is neither. After 21 short reads, you can tell the difference, at work and at the dinner table.

If you are 80

Big text, short lessons, no sign-up, nothing to install. If you can read a menu, you can read this course. Your stool at the counter is ready.

Running this for a class, a grandchild, or an elder? The teach page has the session shape.

Taste one

Sample lesson: Boker Tov: What Has Sabich Got to Do With AI?

Lesson 1.1, straight from the course. This is the whole shape: a scene, one idea, a try, one line to take away.

It is ten to five in the morning. The shuk, our market, is still dark. My stand is the only one with the light on. The sign above my counter says Boker Tov. It is Hebrew. It means good morning. I pour you a glass of sweet tea, and I pull out the one stool at my counter. You are my first customer today. You came for my sabich, and you will get it. Fried eggplant, a hard-boiled egg, potato, hummus, tahini and amba, all tucked into a warm pita. But I am serving a second dish this morning. That dish is artificial intelligence. Here is the menu. First, where AI begins. Then, how machines learn and create. Then, machines that plan for themselves. Last, what it means when we give them hands. My promise is simple. By the last pita, the technology news about AI will make sense to you.

Open Lesson 1.1

Boker tov.

One hour, 21 short reads, and AI stops being a headline. The first pita of the morning is on the house.

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