Course · Claude Academy · beginner · 212 min

AI Capabilities and Limitations

Builds a working mental model of what language models can and cannot do: next-token prediction and where fabrication concentrates, the knowledge cutoff, the context window as a hard limit, and why instruction-following is sometimes loose. You finish able to look at a real AI failure, name which property caused it and choose a targeted fix. Thirteen lessons, about 3.5 hours, quiz and completion badge. Free.