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What happens when you talk to AI?
What happens when you talk to AI? is a five-minute Claude Academy video tutorial on what is going on under the hood in the moment an AI appears to be thinking after you send a message.
Who it suits
- Anyone new to AI who wants a plain picture of how a reply is produced.
- Teams who want a short shared starting point before more detailed training.
What it covers
- What happens between sending a message and receiving a reply.
- Why the pause before an answer is not thinking in the human sense, as the tutorial frames it.
- A foundation for the other tutorials in the How AI works collection.
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Claude · 2026
What happens when you talk to AI?
Common questions about What happens when you talk to AI?
- How long is it?
- Claude Academy lists 5 minutes.
- Is it a video?
- Yes. The tutorial is a video from Anthropic’s Claude channel, and it plays on this page.
- Where does it sit in Claude Academy?
- It is part of the How AI works collection, alongside tutorials on trust and on what AI knows about you.
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