Course overview
This course is for professionals who want to use AI assistants every day with a method, without getting lost in the market. Over four modules, you understand what these tools do, learn to phrase your requests and leave with a tested toolkit and a reusable selection grid.
Lesson objective
By the end of this overview, you will know who the course is for, what you will produce (a tested toolkit and a selection grid) and how the four modules fit together.
Topics covered
- AI tools
- AI assistant
- ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini
- everyday AI
- choosing an AI tool
Where it fits
Overview
What will I be able to do by the end of this course?
Lessons in this module
- Course overview (this lesson)
What you will learn in the course
This lesson is part of the course Choosing and using AI tools at work
- Explain how a generative AI assistant works and what it does well or badly, so you know what to ask of it.
- Identify a tool's limits (fabrications, sources, freshness, data privacy) and the precautions to take before using it.
- Write a clear request (task, context, data, format, criteria) that produces a usable first result.
- Diagnose why a response falls short and fix it with a targeted clarification.
- Select the right tool for a deliverable using a grid of criteria (deliverable, data, sources, cost, language, integration) and justify the choice.
- Choose the right way of working for a task (conversation, project, deep research, agent) and the level of control that goes with it.
- Build your toolkit by comparing at least two tools on a real task with criteria written in advance.
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