Zomalex | Data and AI Training
Introduction to Generative AI Course
Generative AI assistants, such as Microsoft’s Copilot or OpenAI’s ChatGPT, have immediate practical use and can increase our productivity today: they can engage in a conversation with us; plan tasks and projects; draft, summarise, review document, explain how to fix problems and much more.
Who Should Attend
This course is for people who want to take advantage of Generative AI in their daily tasks. It is aimed at a general audience.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, attendees will be able to use generative AI assistants productively and safely for a range of everyday tasks.
Course Content
The course covers:
- an introduction to Generative AI and an overview of the most popular generative assistants: Microsoft’s Copilot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini;
- how get started with generative AI: have a good conversation with an AI assistant (often called prompt engineering)
- a tour of some capabilities of the AI assistant; creating and interpreting images, reading large documents, having a voice conversation, acting as a tutor,…
There are many guided exercises during the course
- practical getting-started exercises on how to get the most out of AI assistants to be more productive in everyday tasks: explaining how things work, solving problems, generating novel ideas, drafting, reviewing and summarising documents…
- more advanced exercises to get the explore the full capabilities of the AI assistant: use the powerful reasoning, or chain of thought model for challenging tasks, create and interpret images, use notebooks, analyse data, and create agents
Course Length
This is a full day course.
Pre-requisites
None. This is a beginner level course. No previous knowledge or experience of Generative AI is required.
Course Style
The course has both tutorials and group exercises. In tutorials, attendees follow the instructor step by step or prompt-by-prompt. In the group exercises, attendees work in groups of about 4 or 5 people in breakout rooms for about 25-30 minutes. Once back in the main room, a spokesperson for each group summarises their conclusions to the class.
Snapshots from the course exercises
The ChatGPT prompt interface