AI Foundations: Zero to AI Hero
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Open course · choose any lessonAI Foundations: Zero to AI Hero starts with the skills that make a first conversation useful. In Talk, you learn what AI is good at, how prompts and context shape an answer, and why verification matters. Personalize turns that practice into a reusable working profile that captures your preferences, goals, and boundaries.
Build uses that profile to produce a finished document, plan, analysis, or checklist. Visualize turns the Build artifact into a clear diagram, deck, or one-pager with accurate labels and accessible presentation. Connect shows how to ground AI in your own files and tools, then create a cited briefing from learner-provided material.
Act introduces safe delegation. You write a bounded job specification, keep approval points clear, and finish one agent task with an audit checklist. Scale combines your profile, briefs, guardrails, workflows, and verification rules into a personal AI playbook. You run a workflow twice, note the improvement, and keep the version you can reuse.
The core path requires no coding and has no hard lesson locks. You can work in ChatGPT or Claude throughout. Lessons 5 through 7 also offer optional, clearly bounded coding-agent stretches with Codex or Claude Code for learners who want them. Each lesson links to what you made before, while remaining useful on its own. By the end, you have practical evidence of how you work with AI and a portable system you can adapt as tools change.
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- 1. Talk: Understand AI and Get Useful AnswersCurrent lessonUnderstand prompts, context, and verification through useful conversations.
- 2. Personalize: Make AI Work Like YouNot startedBuild a portable working profile that makes every AI session more relevant.
- 3. Build: Turn Ideas into Real WorkPremiumTurn a clear brief into a finished, verified artifact you can reuse.
- 4. Visualize: Communicate with Images and DataPremiumTransform verified evidence into an accurate, accessible visual.
- 5. Connect: Ground AI in Your Files and ToolsPremiumCreate cited briefings grounded in your approved files and tools.
- 6. Act: Delegate Work Safely with AI AgentsPremiumDelegate bounded work with approvals, proof, and rollback.
- 7. Scale: Build Your Personal AI Operating SystemPremiumCombine your profiles, briefs, guardrails, and workflows into a portable playbook.
- 8. Meet Your AI AssistantNot startedStart one low-stakes chat and learn what makes the reply useful.
- 9. How a Large Language Model Produces TextNot startedLearn why a fluent answer can help, need a source check, or contain a made-up detail.
- 10. What a Chat Agent Can and Cannot DoNot startedRoute everyday tasks to a safe draft, a checked assist, or a human decision.
- 11. Your First Useful PromptNot startedGive an assistant the details that make an email draft fit the real situation.
- 12. Prompt Anatomy: Task, Context, Format, ConstraintsNot startedBuild a prompt from four parts you can inspect before you send it.
- 13. Context, Chat History, Memory, and Context WindowNot startedKnow what the tool can see now, what it may remember later, and when to restate the facts.
- 14. Steer the Conversation, Do Not Restart ItNot startedKeep what works, name one problem, and ask for the exact repair.
- 15. Your First Safe Daily AI HabitNot startedChoose one low-stakes task, make a draft, correct it once, and check it before you use it.
- 16. Summarize and Extract What MattersNot startedTurn a messy meeting note into decisions, dates, owners, actions, and honest unknowns.
- 17. Turn Notes into a Clear EmailNot startedTurn a rough note into an audience-ready email without inventing facts, commitments, or certainty.
- 18. Rewrite in Your VoiceNot startedName the reader, tone, reading level, and facts that must stay put before you ask for a rewrite.
- 19. Make a Plan You Can FollowNot startedTurn a hoped-for outcome into a checklist, schedule, or event plan that fits real limits.
- 20. Compare Choices Without Giving Away the DecisionNot startedUse a criteria grid to see trade-offs, missing facts, and the choice only you can make.
- 21. Turn a Good Prompt into a Reusable TemplateNot startedKeep the useful instructions, then fill only the details that change.
- 22. Build a Checklist or Simple ProcedureNot startedTurn messy instructions into a repeatable routine you can check.
- 23. Use AI to Learn, Not to Skip LearningNot startedPractice recalling, explaining, and correcting, not only reading a polished summary.
- 24. Search, Model Memory, and Current InformationNot startedChoose the right route before a current-looking answer becomes a real decision.
- 25. Ask a Researchable QuestionNot startedTurn a broad topic into a bounded question that can guide a real search.
- 26. Search with SourcesNot startedTurn a search result into a checkable answer instead of a confident-looking claim.
- 27. Check a Claim: Source, Date, Evidence, ContextNot startedSlow one plausible claim down until the original source can carry every part of it.
- 28. Compare Sources and Handle DisagreementNot startedWhen two sources clash, compare their evidence before you choose a conclusion.
- 29. Keep a Research NoteNot startedCapture what a source supports, where it stops, and what you still need before you draft.
- 30. Write a Source-Checked BriefNot startedTurn a checked research note into a short brief that shows facts, interpretation, and what still needs an answer.
- 31. Research Challenge: Make a Low-Stakes DecisionNot startedUse evidence to clarify a small choice while keeping the final decision human.
- 32. Privacy and File PreflightNot startedDecide what to share, what to clean, and when to stop before a file leaves your hands.
- 33. Turn Raw Notes into a Structured DocumentNot startedShape a rough note into a useful document without changing what the source actually says.
- 34. Build a Simple ReportNot startedBuild a small report from evidence, then make its unanswered questions visible.
- 35. Improve a Letter, Email, or FormNot startedMake writing clearer without quietly changing what it says or promises.
- 36. Work with PDFs, Images, and Scans CarefullyNot startedAsk for a page-linked answer, then verify what the original file actually shows.
- 37. Edit AI Like an EditorNot startedJudge a draft by what it says, who will read it, and what the sources can prove.
- 38. Make a Meeting or Project PackNot startedTurn a rough conversation into a packet people can use, check, and hand off.
- 39. Document Challenge: Draft, Check, DeliverNot startedTurn raw notes into a short document you can explain, check, and hand to the right reviewer.
- 40. Spreadsheet Basics for AI UsersNot startedName the parts of a sheet, then predict what a changed input should do.
- 41. Build a Simple Budget WorksheetNot startedUse fictional amounts, visible formulas, and one changed input to make a worksheet you can check.
- 42. Build a Savings-Goal Scenario PlannerNot startedCompare fictional assumptions, show the calculation, and test one changed input before trusting a scenario.
- 43. Build a Household, Event, or Travel PlannerNot startedTurn a routine, event, or day trip into a table you can check, edit, and actually follow.
- 44. Turn Data into a Table or ChartNot startedChoose the clearest display, label what it shows, and check it against the source values.
- 45. Ask AI to Explain or Improve a FormulaNot startedTranslate formulas into words, test sample inputs, and repair the reference before you paste.
- 46. Check a Spreadsheet Before You Use ItNot startedFind the planted errors, trace the visible inputs, and test the repaired formula before trusting a total.
- 47. Planning Challenge: Build and Test a TemplateNot startedBuild one small planning sheet, change one stated assumption, and prove that the result still makes sense.
- 48. Create Your AI Home BaseNot startedKeep the prompt, sources, preferences, and review check for one task in a visible place.
- 49. Build Your Prompt and Template LibraryNot startedStore a useful pattern by the job you need it to do.
- 50. Chain a Workflow by HandNot startedTurn one larger low-risk job into visible stages with gates a person can check.
- 51. Use AI as a Thinking PartnerNot startedAsk for objections, alternatives, missing risks, and questions before you commit to a plan.
- 52. What Is an Agent?Not startedSeparate a useful answer from an action that can change something.
- 53. Delegate a Low-Risk Task SafelyNot startedWrite the boundary before you ask a tool to touch anything.
- 54. When Not to Use AINot startedChoose a safer boundary before you share data or hand over a decision.
- 55. Capstone: Your Personal AI Operating SystemNot startedTurn one recurring task into a small system you can inspect, review, and stop.
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