Module 4 of 5Lesson 3 of 4~10 min
Specialized tools
For a slide deck, a voice, an image or a small app, a specialized tool often does better than a general-purpose assistant. This lesson helps you identify the right tool for a deliverable and check its terms of use before adopting it, from quotas to commercial use.
Lesson objective
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to identify the specialized tool suited to a deliverable (application, presentation, voice, image, code) and check its terms of use before adopting it (quotas, watermark, commercial use).
Topics covered
- specialized AI tools
- image generation
- AI presentations
- terms of use
Where it fits
Choosing the right tool and way of working
Which tool, and which way of using it, for which need?
Lessons in this module
- General-purpose assistants
- Conversation, project, research, agent: choosing the mode
- Specialized tools (this lesson)
- The tool selection grid
What you will learn in this module
This lesson is part of the course Choosing and using AI tools at work
- Identify a tool's limits (fabrications, sources, freshness, data privacy) and the precautions to take before using it.
- 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.
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