Part of Education
AI from Concepts to Apps
A concrete introduction to artificial intelligence: understanding the key concepts and using them as a real working tool.
Objectives
- Understand the basics of AI and generative AI.
- Use a generative AI tool in a real professional task.
Recommended tools
What professionals use for this course, with a free or open-source option wherever there is one.
- ChatGPTFree plan
Draft, summarise, brainstorm.
- Google GeminiFree plan
Google’s AI assistant, linked to its services.
Microsoft’s AI assistant, also in Word and Excel.
Train an image or sound model, with no code.
- NotebookLMFree
Ask questions about your own documents, with sources cited.
- CanvaFree plan
Create visuals with built-in AI.
Lessons
- Course Overview (AI Concepts to Apps)Reading
AI — Concepts
- Concepts: Understanding AIReading
- Concepts: Understanding AI — QuizQuiz
AI — Generative AI
- Generative AIReading
- Generative AI — QuizQuiz
AI — Prompting
- Prompting: Communicating with AIReading
- Prompting: Communicating with AI — QuizQuiz
AI — Ethics & Guardrails
- Ethics & GuardrailsReading
- Ethics & Guardrails: QuizQuiz
- Ethics & Guardrails: Written ReflectionAssignment
AI — Agentic AI
- Agentic AIReading
- Agentic AI — QuizQuiz
AI — Data Science
- Data ScienceReading
- Data Science — QuizQuiz
AI — Robotics, IoT & Sensors
- Robotics, IoT & SensorsReading
- Robotics, IoT & Sensors — QuizQuiz
AI — Applications
- Applications: Building & Using AI ToolsReading
- Applications: Building & Using AI Tools — QuizQuiz
- What next? Tools and your pathwayReading · 5 min
