Artificial Intelligence training
Learn what AI can and cannot do, and how to apply AI tools and concepts to real work.
Course overview
Understand what artificial intelligence is, how it works and how to use it responsibly. You will explore machine learning ideas, work with modern AI tools, and learn to apply AI to everyday business and study tasks.
Requirements
- A computer
- Basic computer skills
- No programming needed to start
What you will learn
- Explain key AI concepts in plain language
- Use AI tools effectively and critically
- Understand how models learn from data
- Recognise AI risks, bias and ethical issues
Practical projects
- An AI-assisted research and writing workflow
- A simple text or image classifier demo
Skills you will gain
- AI literacy
- Prompt writing
- Evaluating AI output
- Basic machine learning concepts
- Responsible AI use
Career and application opportunities
- AI-assisted roles in many fields
- An entry point to machine learning and data science
- Business roles that use AI tools
Curriculum
1Understanding AI
- What AI is and is not
- A short history of AI
- Narrow AI and general AI
- AI in everyday life
2How AI learns
- Data and patterns
- Supervised and unsupervised learning
- Neural networks overview
- Training and evaluating models
3Generative AI and tools
- How language models work
- Writing effective prompts
- Checking accuracy and sources
- AI for images, audio and code
4AI at work
- Finding tasks AI can help with
- Automating routine work
- Data privacy and security
- Business case studies
5Responsible AI
- Bias and fairness
- Ethics and regulation
- Limits and risks
- Capstone project