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Generative AI in Practice (beta) Course · AI foundations · Level 1

You use it every day.
Do you know why it is brilliant one minute and makes things up the next?

Find out how generative AI works while you try it. By the end you know when to trust an answer and when to check it.

Try the first lesson, it's free See the lessons
Lesson 1 · Where AI Comes From Free
The opening screen of lesson one, where the chatbot asks how confident you are that you could explain what AI is, with three answers to choose from
The course opens with the AI asking you what it is, and how sure you are about your answer.
6interactive lessons
2 hours3 with the exercises
Zeroprerequisites
45quiz questions
$119.00one payment, and you take it whenever you want
The results

What you can do with generative AI after this course

1

You ask an AI when it stopped learning, and see what that changes in the answer.

2

A context template to copy, after seeing one question answered differently with it and without it.

3

Hallucinations become recognizable, and so do the three areas where they happen most.

4

You make a bias come out of a neutral question, on your own screen.

Where you start

The chat habits that change

Today

  • You copy a prompt found online, and hope.
  • Nothing tells you why an answer is good or bad.
  • A new chat has forgotten everything, and nobody told you that is normal.
  • A confident answer looks correct.

After the course

  • You write the question, and you know why it works.
  • Context goes in before the request, and the answer changes.
  • You know what it remembers, what it forgets and when it stopped learning.
  • Some answers need checking, and you know which ones and where.
The lessons

6 lessons of about 25 minutes. The first one is free.

Open them in any order. Each one ends with something to try in the AI you already use.

1

Where AI Comes From

A model is trained, not programmed. What that takes: chips, energy, months. And why it stops learning on a set date.

Free
2

How It Actually Works

One word at a time, each predicted from the last. The context you give decides which word arrives. The memory ends with the chat.

25 min
3

The limits you need to know

Hallucinations, bias in the data, guardrails and how people get around them, deepfakes. What always needs checking.

25 min
4

Multimodality and How to Start Safely

What it can do today with images, voice and video.

25 min
5

A new use for words

How much to write, what to put in it, and who the answer is for. The building blocks of a request. A vague prompt sends the work back to you.

30 min
6

AI agents: when the model starts taking action

An agent is the same model with infrastructure built around it. Give it a task, then watch the loop. A few terms, a few habits worth keeping.

10 min
How you study here

You try it first, the explanation comes after

A slide from lesson two showing the sentence "The cat is" above a list of candidate words with their probabilities, from sitting at the top to a potato at the bottom
Lesson two builds a sentence one word at a time: "The cat is" comes with the candidate words and how likely each one is, and the next word is your pick.
A slide from lesson two with three quick questions, showing the same request answered with context and without
Three quick questions in lesson two, and the same request comes back with a different answer once your context is in it.

These are two real screens from the course.

Try each idea with a click

The lessons are interactive: you touch, you drag, you find out.

On ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini

Copy the prompt from the lesson and try it in your AI. A free account is enough.

An AI tutor inside the lesson

Stuck? Ask, in writing or out loud. It answers about the lesson you are on.

45 quiz questions and a certificate

7 questions per lesson, 10 in the fifth. At the end you get a course certificate, with the quizzes you passed.

Who it is for

For people who already use AI and want to know what happens underneath

Professionals and managers

Anyone who has to decide whether and where to use AI, without relying on instinct.

Parents and students

Anyone who sees it used every day, at home and at school, and wants to understand how it works.

No prerequisites

No formulas, no code. Curiosity is enough. For the technical side there is Vibe Coding.

The skills

The skills Europe recognises

DigComp is the list Europe uses to name digital skills. There are 21 in all: this course covers 11. Below you find which ones, and in which lesson you learn them.

AI literacyMaster
Limits and risks of AIConsolidate
Managing contextConsolidate
Responsible use and privacyIntroduced

For company data that leaves the company, there is a course of its own.

What comes next

Where you go from here

The direct follow-up is AI-PLUG.

AI-PLUG: The framework for bringing AI into your companyWhich processes it belongs in
Vibe Coding for Non-ProgrammersBuild the tool you keep asking for
AI Data AnalystRead the data you already have
Price

One purchase. Take it whenever you want.

The full course

$119.00Taxes calculated at checkout
  • 6 interactive lessons
  • AI tutor in every lesson
  • 45 quiz questions, certificate at the end
  • Updates included
  • Invoice on request
Buy the course

For several people, team licences cost less per person.

The first lesson

Free
  • Where AI Comes From, in full
  • AI tutor and quiz included
  • No card, just an account
Try the first lesson

If after 20 minutes you have not learned something new, you have lost 20 minutes.

Questions

Before you start.

"Do I need a paid ChatGPT plan?"

No. The exercises run on a free account of ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. Whichever one you already use is fine.

"How long does it take?"

The lessons take about two hours to read, three if you do every exercise, spread out however you like.

"Does it cover agents?"

Yes, in the last lesson: what an agent is and how to watch its loop.

"Does this help with the AI Act?"

Yes. It covers the basics of AI literacy, what it is and where it fails, which Article 4 of the AI Act asks organizations to ensure.

Max Turazzini

Max Turazzini. 3 years of workshops in more than 200 companies, 2,000 people trained. It is the first hour of company workshops, rebuilt so you can go through it on your own.

"You learn AI by doing it, by getting it wrong, and by having someone beside you who has been there before."

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