Intro to AI Fundamentals: AI Literacy for Everyone

About this course

Everyone is talking about ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini — but very few people actually understand how they work, what they're good for, or where they fail. This course fixes that. In eight focused modules, you'll build a complete, accurate AI literacy — a working mental model of artificial intelligence that makes you better at using it, evaluating it, and making decisions about it.

You'll learn how large language models (LLMs) work, how to write effective prompts using prompt engineering techniques, how to use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Midjourney for real tasks, and how the AI ecosystem connects through APIs, open-source models, and tools like Hugging Face. You'll also understand the new world of AI agents and agentic AI — autonomous systems that plan, use tools, and complete multi-step tasks without human input at every step.

The course also covers what AI gets wrong: hallucination, cost, latency, and the data wall. And it goes all the way to the frontier: AGI, alignment, AI safety, and what organisations like Anthropic and DeepMind are actually working on. No code. No maths. Just clear, honest, grounded understanding.

By the end, you'll have a personal AI stack, a framework for evaluating every new tool that launches, and a learning loop that keeps your AI literacy current as generative AI and agentic AI keep evolving.

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