Eight lessons that take you from knowing nothing about AI to understanding what it is, how it works, and how to use it in your job. No coding, no maths, no prior experience. Free, and finishable in an afternoon.
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| # | Lesson | What it covers | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What AI actually is | Definitions without the hype. AI vs machine learning vs generative AI. What today’s tools genuinely do. | 7 min |
| 2 | How AI models learn | Training data, patterns, prediction. Why AI is confident and wrong. No maths. | 8 min |
| 3 | The AI tool landscape | ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Claude. What each is for, which to start with. | 8 min |
| 4 | Writing your first prompts | Context, specificity, examples. The four things that separate a useful answer from a useless one. | 9 min |
| 5 | Prompt engineering that works | Iterating, giving the model a role, formatting output, knowing when to start over. | 10 min |
| 6 | Using AI for data and analysis | Summarising, spotting patterns, drafting formulas. Where it breaks. | 9 min |
| 7 | Automating repetitive work | Finding the tasks worth automating in your own role, and doing it without code. | 8 min |
| 8 | Ethics, limits, and failures | Bias, hallucination, privacy, what not to feed it. Where a human must stay in the loop. | 7 min |
Start at Lesson 1 and work through in order — each one builds on the last.
Take the quiz at the end of each lesson to check it stuck.
No account, no sign-up. Your progress is yours to track.
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