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CJB Lodge
Where friends figure out AI together — before AI starts making decisions for them.
The overview
Who this lodge is for
Anyone with no coding background who's curious about AI and wants to make sense of it through real, relevant events and controversies.
Why join
Learn about AI through relevant, real-world events and controversies — coding and maths stay light, with basic intuition-based content. You'll walk away understanding what AI can and can't do, and how to use it for real practical benefit without letting it do your thinking for you.
What you'll explore
- Prompt engineering
- Hallucinations & bias
- Labour displacement
- Productivity workflows
- MCPs
- RAG
Skill level
Beginner
Your captains
Three captains, one lodge
Captain details are being finalised and will be updated here.
Week by week
The route through the woods
Week 1What is AI? LLMs and how language models work
Week 2Prompting and how AI “understands” instructions
Week 3How AI learns: training, data, and the machine learning pipeline
Week 4Hallucinations, retrieval, and grounding AI in facts
Week 5Vision models: how AI sees and interprets images
Week 6AI and creative work: generative models
Week 7AI at work: agents, automation, and agentic AI
Week 8Bias, fairness, and how AI models are trained
Week 9AI safety, deepfakes, and the road ahead
Weekly topics are indicative and may shift to fit the lodge.