AI for Beginners

The "AI for Beginners" course offers you a comprehensive foundation in AI, covering its core principles, techniques, and real-world applications. The course begins by defining AI. You’ll explore its history and its various roots and branches, including machine learning, natural language processing, and robotics. This will help you understand the distinction between the general category of AI and Generative AI, which is what you’ll use most of the time.

You’ll learn the ethical and societal implications of AI, discussing topics like bias, privacy, and the future of work.

Then, standing empowered on those crucial foundations, you’ll gain essential skills in prompt learning, prompt writing, and their applications across a variety of AI tools. You’ll learn methods to assess tools and develop workflows for your own needs, learning the strengths and weaknesses of each tool while using them to increase efficiency and creativity in your day-to-day life. Most importantly, you’ll practice an “AI mindset” that allows you to tap more into your unique gifts, expression, and creativity.

Communication skills are fostered through projects, enabling you to work effectively and communicate AI concepts and findings through projects and hands-on experience.

By the end of the course, you’ll feel empowered and equipped to utilize AI to enhance your expression and bring more of your unique creativity to the world. And you’ll build confidence by learning the foundational problem-solving mindset that will allow you to create your own AI workflows from scratch.

Dive in and create more space in your life to be who you’re here to be, allowing AI to enhance your impact.

LO1: Speak confidently about the underlying concepts of AI, Generative AI, Conversational AI

LO2: Make educated choices to use AI ethically, reduce bias in your work, and support tools and platforms that match your values

LO3: Create workflows to utilize AI for tasks in a way that enhances creativity, life balance, and impact.

LO4: Write prompts that get the results you’re looking for, working with AI to create the visions in your mind with optimal efficiency.

LO5: Identify the optimal tools for each task and set up integrations to enhance functionality

LO6: Stay at the leading edge of AI with only a small amount of practice and reading each week.

LO7: Know the pitfalls to watch out for to ensure the results you get are accurate.