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What Has Irish Stew Got to Do With AI?
This course explains AI through 1 Irish pub, in 21 short lessons of about 3 minutes each, for ages 8 to 80. Read it, or listen to it.
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- No sign-up
- About 1 hour
- Transcript on every lesson
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How it works
Read, try, notice
Every lesson is one small idea at one Irish pub, told by the publican himself, in plain English. You read it in about 3 minutes, you try one thing, and you start noticing AI in your own day.
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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.
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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.
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Notice
By the last bowl, 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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8 servings, 21 lessons, about 1 hour
From the delivery at the back door to robots with hands. Every serving stands on its own, and the whole meal takes about an hour.
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Serving 1
The Pub Before Opening
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 Chef With a Thousand Eyes
deep learning and perception
2 lessons · 6 minutes
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Serving 4
The Chef Who Invents New Dishes
generative AI and LLMs
3 lessons · 9.5 minutes
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Serving 5
The Pub 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 Pub 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 pub. The course only adds the words for what the publican 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: Sorting the Carrots: Fresh or Spoiled?
Lesson 2.1, straight from the course. This is the whole shape: a scene, one idea, a try, one line to take away.
I run an Irish pub. Every morning at 5 a.m., you will find me at the back door, going through my delivery. Fresh carrots go into my basket. Spoiled ones stay out. I do not write anything down. I do not run any tests. I pick up a carrot, feel it, look at it, and I just know. I do this five hundred times before the sun is properly up.
Pull up a stool.
One hour, 21 short reads, and AI stops being a headline. The first bowl is on the house.
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