A Beginners Guide To (ChatGPT) Generative AI

Name: A Beginners Guide To (ChatGPT) Generative AI
Rating: 4.7 (7 reviews)

Stop guessing. Start designing. Use ChatGPT with structure, rules, and consistent, professional results.

Created byPaul Scotchford

Last updated 2/2026

English

What you'll learn

How to move past simple interactions with ChatGPT to advanced basics
Creating reliable prompt patterns for reliable outputs
Why we use projects for organisation and workflow
The advantages of Agents
Building a No-Code ChatBot using Agent Builder

Course content

7 sections • 23 lectures • 1h 40m total length

Why Gen AI ?2:51
Answering common questions and misconceptions about Gen AI
Data and Privacy: Why this matters in Gen AI use5:09
How to protect your data and privacy when using a LLM
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Everyone Uses This Prompt Pattern5:04
The most common prompt pattern is used in the majority of chats , but has flaws !
From Random to Repeatable5:59
This prompt pattern is when you realize you can shape how AI responds.
If you used online customer feed back bots (Retail, Service, Support etc. ) then it's like this prompt pattern was used.
Giving AI Clear Boundaries6:14
In this pattern, you’re not just prompting, you’re deliberately shaping how the AI responds.
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Understanding UI-Based Agents1:39
A high level overview of how UI based agents turn casual chat into structured, repeatable workflows
They are not perfect though, as I will explain!
From Messy Input to Structured Output7:45
See how an agent transforms ambiguous workplace communication into a consistent, reliable format
From Raw Data to Executive Insight10:09
Watch how an agent applies a predefined analytical structure to transform retail sales data into business insights
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From Open Chat to Structured Bots2:33
Turning Policy Into a Working AI Bot : Pre Development1:46
In this lecture, we take the structured GPT assistant you’ve already built and turn it into a workflow based AI bot using Agent Builder
Turning Policy Into a Working AI Bot : Adding Starter Nodes3:30
Adding nodes that prepare the bot for the primary agent
Turning Policy Into a Working AI Bot : The Agent Node4:21
Adding the primary agent with the instructions and knowledge to handle user policy queries
Turning Policy Into a Working AI Bot : Let's Chat2:19
Testing the veracity of the bot in a chat
Turning Policy Into a Working AI Bot : The Bot is Alive4:57
Chatting with the bot from a browser
How well does it do when asked asked to perform computations
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Requirements

A free ChatGPT account if you want to try out prompts and projects
A paid ChatGPT account if you want to create GPT's, Chatbots

Description

Generative AI is everywhere – but I find that most people are still using it like a basic chat or search tool.

I want to show you how to change that.

In this advanced-basics practical introduction, you’ll learn how to move from open-ended chat to structured, controlled AI systems. We start with structured prompting — designing behaviour instead of repeating instructions and hoping for consistent results.

From there, you’ll see how Projects and GPTs help persist that behaviour, before moving into UI Agents and Agent Builder, where structure becomes more deliberate and repeatable.

Along the way, you’ll build real examples, including a policy-based assistant grounded in a real document. You’ll see how AI can follow defined rules, apply constraints, and produce consistent, professional outputs that are clearer, more reliable, and easier to verify.

This is not a coding course. It’s about understanding how modern AI tools actually work in practice, and how to design them intentionally so your outputs are safer, more structured, and fit for real workplace use.

If you want to go beyond “ask and hope” prompting and begin building structured AI systems you can confidently rely on, this course provides a clear, step-by-step foundation you can apply immediately.

No hype. No jargon. Just practical, usable skills.

Who this course is for:

Anyone interested in Gen AI and ChatGPT
How to be more productive when using ChatGPT

A Beginners Guide To (ChatGPT) Generative AI

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Course content

Clearing the Fog2 lectures • 8min

Prompting Fundamentals: The Core Patterns3 lectures • 17min

From Prompts to Projects3 lectures • 11min

Understanding GPTs: What They Are and How They Work4 lectures • 21min

Using AI as a System, Not a Conversation3 lectures • 20min

From Chat Interface to Agent Builder6 lectures • 19min

Next Steps2 lectures • 4min

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