Bake It to Make It: How AI Works (Explained with Cake)

Understanding AI and how to make it work for you

Running a successful bakery means understanding how a cake is made. The same idea applies when working with artificial intelligence. If we understand the basic ingredients and steps, we can confidently use AI to create powerful results.

Let’s explore how cake-making helps us grasp the essentials of generative AI. We cover prompts, tokens, modality and predictability, with an analogy of following a recipe. And who doesn’t love cake?

Let’s peek behind the curtain and see how the cake is made.

In our latest whitepaper, we dive into the world of artificial intelligence, with a thorough explainer and workflows you can use immediately. You will brush up on your AI vocabulary, take a look at the strengths of each platform, find out what we’ve discovered from experts in the field, and learn how to put these incoming changes to use.

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