Course 00 · Go beyond search
AI fundamentals for beginners
A practical introduction for people who already ask AI simple questions and want to work more confidently with prompting, ideas, writing, analysis and everyday tasks.
Your outcomes
What you will be able to do.
- Explain what generative AI can and cannot do.
- Use AI as a thinking and working partner, not only for search.
- Write clearer instructions and check outputs before using them.
Course structure
Every lesson has a purpose.
- What AI is - and is not
- AI versus a search engine
- How generative AI produces answers
- The anatomy of a useful prompt
- Everyday tasks: ideas, text and analysis
- Facts, sources, privacy and judgement
- Your first repeatable AI workflow