Webspinner Academy Introduction to AI · Course syllabus 15 lessons Sources verified 13 August 2026
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Fifteen teaching films, one for each lesson. Every film's chapters are the lesson's own numbered sections, so you can watch it straight through or jump to the part you came for. Each one ends with its sources on screen.

15 films 1h 37m total With sound · chapters · free to watch

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I

Where This Came From

Lesson 1

The History of AI and Machine Learning

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Lesson 2

Significant Milestones in AI Advancement

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II

What It Actually Is

Lesson 3

Generative AI and Basic Chat

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Lesson 4

Co-Pilot Products and “Companion AI”

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Lesson 5

Agentic AI Explained

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Lesson 6

Chat: Its Uses and Limitations

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III

Who Controls It

Lesson 7

Frontier AI and Mainstream LLMs

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Lesson 8

Hugging Face and OpenAI

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Lesson 9

Sovereign AI and Why It Matters

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Lesson 10

Breakthrough Tooling Such as Claude Code

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IV

What It Means for You

Lesson 11

Does AI Cost Jobs, and Lead to Layoffs?

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Lesson 12

Will AI Change Everything?

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Lesson 13

The Age of AI: Compared to the Industrial Revolution and the Age of the Internet

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Lesson 14

How to Learn By Doing

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Lesson 15

The Webspinner AI Playground

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Every film was written from the lesson it accompanies and narrated with InferenceVideo. Footage is licensed stock; each film credits its sources on the closing card. Nothing in a film is a claim the written lesson does not already carry, cited.