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Hands-On: Your first AI conversation — Eficiencia de Estudio con IA

Módulo 2: How AI actually works — Most people use AI completely wrong. I'll show you exactly what happens under the hood.

Super fast and usually free. Perfect for quick summaries or easy questions, like brainstorming 10 essay topics.
Fast & Lightweight Models — These are models like Gemini Flash or ChatGPT Mini.
Your everyday go-to. Smart enough to easily handle the bulk of your daily work, like drafting a research paper. It hits the perfect sweet spot between intelligence and speed.
Flagship Models — These are models like ChatGPT-4o and Claude 3.5.
These models will actually pause and double-check their own math before answering. Perfect for untangling difficult physics problems.
Thinking Models — These are designed to fix their own mistakes before they type a single word back to you.
Smart but very slow. You only use these for your absolute hardest problems when you need raw, brute-force intelligence and have hours to wait.
Extended Thinking Models — Think of an autonomous researcher reading 20 papers for you over a long time.
Tools trained to do exactly one highly specific task perfectly, like searching the actual internet for credible sources without hallucinating.
Purpose-Built Models — These specialists are laser-focused on one job, unlike flagship models.
They can read text, analyze photos, listen to audio, and talk back all at once. Perfect for snapping a photo of a math graph or having a voice conversation.
Multimodal Models — Because the real world isn't just text on a screen, they can see, hear, and speak.
Step 01 of the 2-Step Study Framework. To avoid the AI guessing from memory and hallucinating facts, what type of model should you use first to gather real sources?
Purpose-Built Search AI — You need a tool like Perplexity that searches the actual internet first.
Step 02 of the 2-Step Study Framework. Once you have the verified facts, you hand them over to this type of model to actually learn them, acting like a real, patient tutor.
Multimodal AI — You use this so you can snap a photo of a worksheet or use Voice Mode to talk through it.
Think of this as the AI's short-term memory. It's the total amount of conversation history the AI can remember at one time.
Context Window — If you keep everything inside one app, you keep this perfectly safe.