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Understanding AI
The basics, without jargon, to use AI with confidence.
What artificial intelligence really is, how to talk to an assistant such as ChatGPT or Claude, what it does well, where it gets things wrong and how to protect your information. Eight short lessons, each with a video, a text, a hands-on exercise and a short quiz.
What you will be able to do
- Explain simply what AI is and what it is not
- Write clear instructions that get good results
- Spot a made-up answer and check it
- Know what you should never share with an assistant
- Use AI every week to save time
Curriculum
- What exactly is AI?What we call AI today, where it comes from and why it has changed scale.10 min
- How an assistant finds its answersPredicting the next word, learning from billions of texts: what happens when you ask a question.Coming soon
- Asking well: the art of the promptContext, goal, format, examples: the recipe for a request that gets a useful result the first time.Coming soon
- When AI gets it wrongMade-up answers, outdated information, bias: how to recognize them and check.Coming soon
- Privacy and securityWhat happens to your messages and what you should never share.Coming soon
- Ten useful everyday usesWriting, summarizing, organizing, learning, translating: practical uses to try today.Coming soon
- Images, voice and videoAI that draws, speaks and films: possibilities, limits and rights.Coming soon
- Agents and automation: what comes nextWhen AI no longer just answers but acts for you, and how to stay in control.Coming soon