For curious beginners

Understand AI properly, starting from nothing

You don't need maths, code or a technical job. You start with what AI actually is, how it learns and where it goes wrong, then use an assistant safely for everyday things. Plain English, short lessons, and every term explained the first time it appears.

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Sound familiar?

What usually gets in the way

Everyone talks about AI as if you should already understand it
Headlines swing between miracle and catastrophe, and neither helps you decide anything
You're not sure what's safe to type into a chatbot, or whether to trust what comes back

What you get

What changes

A clear, jargon-free picture of what AI is, and what it isn't
The confidence to use an AI assistant for everyday tasks, and to push back when an answer looks wrong
Habits that protect you from AI mistakes, deepfakes and AI-powered scams
A Foundations certificate when you complete the level

Your path

What comes first for curious beginners

Everyone gets the same 18 released modules. What differs is the order — and what the placement check lets you skip. For curious beginners, the path leads with these:

01
What AI actually is
AI, machine learning, deep learning and generative AI, untangled: what each term means, what it doesn't, and why the hype and the fear both miss.
02
Your first conversations with AI
Getting started with an AI assistant safely: what to ask, how to follow up, and how to tell a good answer from a confident one.
03
Limitations and staying safe
Hallucination, bias, knowledge cutoffs, privacy, deepfakes and AI-powered scams: what AI gets wrong, and how to protect yourself.
04
A short history of AI
From Turing and the 1956 Dartmouth workshop through two AI winters, deep learning and the transformer to ChatGPT and agents: how we got here, and what it predicts.
05
Prompting well
Context, examples, structure and iteration: how to ask for what you actually want, and get it the first or second time.
06
AI for images, audio and video
Generating and editing images, voice, music and video: what the tools can do, what they can't, and the rights questions to ask first.
07
The Tool Atlas: choosing the right tool
The 32 tools that matter, from ChatGPT to n8n: what each is good at, what to watch out for, and how to judge any new one in five questions.

Find your starting point

Five minutes, no card. You’ll get your level in five skill areas and a path built around being a curious beginner.

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