Volume 1

Volume 1 - Foundations of Artificial Intelligence & Generative AI

Volume 1 is the handbook's entry point and assumes no background in AI. Its fifteen chapters run from Turing's 1936 machine through rules, machine learning and deep networks to the foundation models, language models, image generators and multimodal systems of September 2026, and every teaching chapter works a documented case with real numbers. Chapters 1 to 10 are Beginner and Chapters 11 to 14 Intermediate. Chapter 15 is a Review, one priced design exercise whose Exit Check sends the reader on to Volume 2's mathematics.