AI for Beginners: Reasoning Models

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ABOUT THE COURSE:

Reasoning models are one of the biggest breakthroughs in AI as they give models the ability to think through things using a "scratchpad" of sorts, introducing something more akin to System 2 thinking.

Reasoning models feel like magic…until they don’t. This course helps you understand what’s happening under the hood, so you know how to use them, why they work, and where this technology is going.

You’ll start with the basics, then quickly move into real model behavior. You’ll practice your skills and explore reasoning models with real, hands-on exercises and practice.

Then you’ll connect the dots to how these systems are trained: reinforcement learning, RLHF, process reward models, the PRM800K dataset, and the impact of the latest scaling law on the future of AI: test-time compute.

You’ll also explore the tricky (but maybe more interesting)part: when reasoning models lie to you and the secrets they keep.