AI 101 · Start anywhere
Understand AI. Try something useful.
Seven short lessons for people who want a useful foundation, not a technical lecture. Each lesson ends with something you can try.
A small course with a clear finish.
59 minutes in total. No account required. Read in order or choose the gap that matters to you.
AI helps. You decide.
Begin with the stance that makes every later AI decision safer: assistance can be delegated, responsibility cannot.
5 min →01What AI is, and what it is not
Separate models, products, search, automation and ordinary software so you can choose the simplest suitable intervention.
8 min →02Find a task worth using AI for
Judge potential tasks by repetition, ambiguity, consequence, reversibility and whether a capable person can check the result.
8 min →03Brief AI like a capable colleague
Give the goal, relevant context, constraints, examples and expected output instead of hunting for magic prompt wording.
10 min →04Know what not to share
Classify information before using an AI product and minimise what leaves your approved systems.
8 min →05Check before you trust
Match the checking method to the consequence: inspect sources, calculations, assumptions, omissions and edge cases.
10 min →06Choose the right kind of AI
Match the capability and effort level to the task instead of assuming the newest or deepest model is automatically better.
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