AI Professional - ChatGPT & Beyond For Work

Discover beta ChatGPT-4 with canvas to write and edit faster, applying timeboxing techniques, emojis, reading level controls, and suggested edits for polished, ready to copy papers.

Explore how ChatGPT 4.0 canvas beta speeds coding by generating Python banking script, creating user accounts, deposits and withdrawals, adding comments and logs, porting to Java, and performing code reviews.

Explore how ChatGPT 4.0 and OpenAI 0-1 differ, with 0-1 delivering deeper reasoning for coding, math, and science tasks, though early releases limit browsing and file uploads.

Explore document uploads and master three core tasks—synthesis, transformation, and extraction—using chatgpt to summarize, analyze, extract headings, rewrite, compare articles, and generate slides.

ChatGPT search enables real-time web information and citations, competing with Google by delivering conversational answers, weather, stocks, maps, and news plus a Chrome extension.

Learn to create and edit images with ChatGPT and DALL-E, using prompts and experimentation, plus Dolly editing and Microsoft Copilot tips, to transform ideas into vivid visuals.

Learn how ChatGPT analyzes uploaded images, describes scenes and artworks, and recognizes text inside images, with examples like The Scream and Mona Lisa.

Explore the mobile version of ChatGPT, using voice interactions, image uploads, and multimodal features to solve real-world tasks, practice languages, and improve on-the-go productivity.

Explore the GPT store to discover custom gpts that boost productivity inside ChatGPT. Learn to search, access, and use gpts to create slides, PDFs, and other tasks.

Create your own gpt using the chatgpt gpt builder with no coding required. Customize with custom instructions and external data, then publish a pickleball guide to the gpt store.

Explore Microsoft Copilot Studio to build AI-powered copilots with templates and a low-code builder, automate tasks, answer questions, and gain analytics for customer service, HR, and sales.

Admins learn how to add copilot to Microsoft 365 subscriptions via the admin center, exploring subscriptions, billing, and the complete guide and resources for purchase.

Explore the Copilot side window in Word to summarize documents, manage prompts, and draft in-document FAQs and designs, comparing ribbon and in-document workflows, with AI content caveats.

Learn to edit a business plan in Word with Copilot, adding sections, drafting team and marketing details, and rewriting or visualizing financial data as tables.

Learn to reference documents in Word with Copilot, browsing OneDrive files to create a draft from PDFs, PowerPoint, Excel, or Word, focused on ethical and future implications of generative AI.

Create a complete PowerPoint from a blank canvas using Copilot prompts to generate slides on timeboxing. Refine with designer and tailor the deck for a team meeting.

Learn to create a PowerPoint from a blank deck using the create presentation about option, tailor content with editable prompts for beginners, and organize slides with the slide sorter.

Enhance your PowerPoint work with Copilot AI to summarize, reorganize, and add slides, structuring decks around timeboxing benefits and related techniques like Pomodoro and Eisenhower matrix for boosted productivity.

Learn to create AI-generated images with Copilot in PowerPoint, refine prompts for restaurant and cafe visuals and competitor imagery, and insert or resize images using Designer to enhance presentations.

Create a PowerPoint from files such as a Word document, Excel tables, or veg business plan, using Copilot to pull content, tailor tone, and add images and a call-to-action.

Discover how to use Copilot in Excel to create formula columns, calculate daily range and price variance, format and highlight data, and analyze weekly First Solar stock data.

Use Copilot in Excel to perform fast data analysis, create pivot tables and charts, identify outliers in the daily range, and compute the average price difference across a dataset.

learn to boost productivity in Excel with Copilot prompts, create formulas, apply color scales, and explore prompt ideas from Copilot Lab and view prompts to enhance data insight.

Copilot 365 helps you get unstuck by generating ideas and creating documents or presentations, from planning an office event to editing and finalizing a work life balance presentation.

Use Copilot in Microsoft 365 across PowerPoint, Excel, and Word to stay organized, brainstorm via chat, access Copilot prompts and the Copilot lab, and search emails and calendars quickly.

Copilot chat acts as a brainstorming and creative partner, using the ChatGPT foundation to generate ideas, outlines, and content across marketing, presentations, and translations.

Explore how Copilot chat handles multimodal inputs by uploading or linking images, describing scenes, extracting ingredients, and generating recipe ideas from pictures.

Create images directly in Copilot chat with DALL-E from OpenAI, describe scenes and styles like 3D, steampunk, or photorealistic, tweak backgrounds, and consider ethical use of trained data.

Discover how Copilot in Microsoft Teams enhances meetings with real-time transcription and recording, generates action items, and offers post-meeting transcripts and sentiment insights to catch up quickly.

Explore how Copilot enhances Teams by handling chat, meetings, and tasks, search across emails and calendar, add content and prompts, and use prompts to boost productivity with plugins.

Explore microsoft copilot studio to create your own copilots with a low-code builder, using templates, automate tasks, answer questions, and gain analytics for roles like customer service, hr, and sales.

Explore how Copilot in Outlook assists constructing and revising emails, offering draft variants, tone controls, and prompts to tailor messages for urgency and collaboration.

Open emails and use Copilot to generate a quick summary, extracting the most important facts from long messages such as emails, marketing emails, or embedded articles, boosting productivity.

Learn to coach and rewrite emails with Copilot to improve tone, clarity, and professionalism, turning angry drafts into concise, solution-focused messages.

Explore Canva's magic studio and magic design to generate AI-powered templates for social media, presentations, and videos, including a Veg grand opening post and Instagram reels.

Explore Canva's magic media to generate images from simple text prompts, similar to Midjourney or DALL-E, for Instagram posts and other visuals.

Explore Canva's magic studio to write with AI, turn docs into slide decks, and add AI-generated images. Create designs, headers, charts, and rich text using magic writing and image generation.

Create videos from simple text prompts using Canva's magic media, manage credits and templates, and explore Runway integration and watermark considerations on free plans.

Explore how to handle ethical questions when using ai for research and image creation, weighing speed, data quality, disclosure, and originality in competitive analyses and social media campaigns.

Examine how deepfakes use artificial intelligence to recreate real people, place words in their mouths, and deceive audiences through manipulated videos, endorsements, and potential fraud.

Be skeptical of online content and verify sources to spot deception and deepfakes. Check lip-sync in videos and look for image and text inconsistencies to avoid scams.

Explore the transparency and black box challenges in large language models, examining how inputs map to outputs, accountability, and strategies like explainable ai and interactive interfaces.

Understand information privacy in ai use by examining data ownership, consent, and data security. See how company policies and chilling effects influence sharing and how models learn from input.

Analyze how training data shape generative AI outputs, highlighting fairness and bias. Examine western bias in image tools and hiring algorithms, and discuss mitigating strategies.

Improve system training through strong human oversight and informed consent, while promoting transparent disclosure of ai usage in images and content to address fairness, bias, and ethics.

Analyze how human actions shape AI ethics, and how nefarious users might misuse AI for deception or money laundering, drawing parallels with cryptocurrency.

Investigate copyright concerns in AI, from training data and tone versus style to lawsuits and country-specific laws, with examples from authors, artists, and tech companies.

Explore how ai created avatars work, their ethical use, and the potential to replace actors and trainers with avatars like Synthesia, including implications for background roles and future work.

Explore AI's impact on job displacement and society, with AI as a personal assistant. Recognize vulnerable tasks, data entry, writing, and coding, and growth areas in AI ethics and development.

Examine how advertising may influence AI responses, including finance app recommendations, and assess potential manipulation risks and the need for safeguards.

Explore the limitations of artificial intelligence, including hallucinations, incorrect or biased outputs, limited post-2021 knowledge, and poor real-time context, and learn to use AI as a careful personal assistant.

Explore the five principles of ethical intelligence for ai—do no harm, make things better, respect others, be fair, and be loving—applied to real-world ai voice training and bias considerations.

Apply the IBM AI ethics model - respect for persons, beneficence, and justice - to guide fair AI use, such as drafting termination messages with human judgment for sensitive cases.

Learn practical prompt engineering to improve AI outputs by crafting context, explicit instructions, and negative prompts, and applying chain-of-thought, zero-shot, and few-shot techniques with templates.

Apply the persona prompt pattern by having AI act as a role like a marketing manager to craft a complete marketing plan, including market research, branding, pricing, and promotions.

Explore the flipped interaction pattern, where a language model asks you questions one at a time to help you study, prepare for interviews, or plan goals, using configurable prompts.

Apply the cognitive verifier pattern to break a big question into eight subquestions, enabling large language models to generate and combine answers for a more accurate overall result.

Explore the question refinement pattern to craft better prompts, improve interactions with large language models, and compare original questions with refined versions in a practical two-step workflow.

Learn how audience persona prompts tailor responses from large language models to specific audiences, from medical students to ten-year-olds, improving clarity and relevance.

Master the attribute–object–action framework to guide ChatGPT responses by describing an object's attributes and the desired action. Use examples like project management software to generate features or bullet lists.

Use the description-attribute-object (dao) prompt template to define the description, attributes, and object, guiding AI responses to describe a great web page user experience with visual appeal and balanced color.

Master question-and-answer and list-item templates in ChatGPT to craft structured prompts, generate comprehensive lists, and extract key benefits and features for hybrid work and video conferencing.

Use a design prompt template to generate creative design concepts. Leverage ChatGPT as your personal assistant to shape typography, color palettes, logos, and web page ideas.

Use a writing template and ai prompts to craft blogs, articles, reports, and emails with outlines, titles, subtitles, and long-tail keywords for efficient, original content.

Translate text across languages and creatively repurpose content into emails, blogs, or social media while preserving the core essence and meaning.

Use a storytelling prompt template for ChatGPT to generate first drafts for marketing campaigns, personal narratives, and children's books, then adapt stories to fit your communication goals.

The how-to template provides step-by-step directions to solve tasks, from planning an office party to building a pitch deck with a recommended slide structure, research, and tailoring for venture capitalists.

Use a summarize prompt template for ChatGPT to condense long reports into main ideas and key points, with inflation article examples, and capture economists and marketplace perspectives.

Use the create prompt template to channel artificial intelligence as a creative muse, helping you brainstorm and generate original content ideas in a format for writing, blogs, or text-to-art projects.

Generate and debug code with a practical chat-based prompt template. Convert between JavaScript and Python, fix syntax errors, and copy ready-to-use AI-assisted code snippets.

Master chain of thought prompting as a dynamic back-and-forth technique that builds on previous prompts to craft coherent discussions and step-by-step workflows for tasks like onboarding.

Discover react prompting, a reasoning and action framework for large language models that breaks tasks into steps, reveals a reasoning trace, and guides the model with per-step actions.

Activate zero-shot prompting by applying general knowledge to produce a relevant response without task-specific training, as shown in a Facebook ad for a zoo; contrast with few-shot prompting coming next.

Explore few-shot prompting, including one-shot and zero-shot prompts, and learn how adding small contextual shots guides model responses with practical examples like a pink panda ad.

Explore the differences between zero-shot and few-shot prompting, including how zero-shot relies on pre-trained understanding for flexible outputs, while few-shot uses brief examples to tailor responses.

Master self-consistency prompting to guide an AI toward responses that stay cohesive with a predefined theme or style, ensuring era-appropriate dialogue, older western and formal business examples.

Explore multi-modal prompts that combine text, images, and other data to generate more contextually rich outputs by integrating information from multiple modalities, with hands-on examples using image uploads.

Explore AI text-to-image creation using tools like Midjourney, Dall‑E, Google Imagine, and Firefly; learn prompt engineering, generate and edit images, apply styles, and consider business use and copyright.

Write clear, concise prompts with specific details and mood, and choose artistic styles like realistic or abstract, and experiment to improve text-to-image results in Midjourney and DALL·E.

Discover how to create great images from AI prompts with tools like Dolly, Midjourney, and Firefly, including prompt entry, style options, and editing—no art skill required.

Examine the key challenges, limitations, and ethics of AI and prompt engineering, including bias in training data, task complexity, prompt precision, privacy, accountability, misinformation and manipulation.

Explore how AI hallucinations produce confidently wrong results, illustrated by the apple stock example with a wrong price but correct dividend yield, underscoring the need to verify AI outputs.

Learn what a prompt engineer does, and how prompt engineering can be a profession or everyday skill, from researching models to collaborating and creating prompts.

Artificial intelligence simulates human intelligence through data processing, enabling problem solving, learning, reasoning, language understanding, and visual perception. Unlike traditional programs that follow instructions, AI learns from data and adapts.

Discover how generative AI creates new text, images, and code from learned data, guided by prompts and prompt engineering, with humans in charge.

Discover practical uses of generative AI for text and image tasks. See hands-on examples with ChatGPT and Microsoft 365 Copilot to write emails, blog posts, and generate slides.

Explore why generative AI rose in popularity, led by ChatGPT's rise and accessible tools for creating text and images, and how it integrates into daily life and business.

Generative AI learns patterns in data, mimicking creativity with words, sounds, and images without understanding, while humans edit and guide its use as an assistant, not a replacement for humans.

Explore the four AI types—reactive, limited memory, generative, and general AI—and see how generative AI like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or Microsoft Copilot fits as a subcategory of limited memory AI.

Explore the singularity, a future where AI surpasses human intelligence, weighing unprecedented technological advancements against loss of human control, ethical dilemmas, and existential risks.

Learn how generative AI uses vast data—text, images, and more—to learn patterns and generate new content. See how human feedback refines models and why more data improves accuracy and creativity.

Explore the ethical and privacy challenges of generative AI, including bias, misinformation, and limitations. Discuss data sets, safety considerations, and how job displacement and deepfakes relate to AI.

Explore how artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning interrelate and differ, including supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning, neural networks, and generative AI context.

Understand tokens as the building blocks of AI language, from characters to words, and see how tokenization enables natural language processing and large language models.

Explore how AI models are trained to perform specific tasks, from foundational models to training on top of them, with examples like ChatGPT and Copilot.

Explore the AI model life cycle from data selection and model choice to pre-training, fine-tuning, evaluation, deployment, and continuous feedback that improves performance in real-world use.

Learn how to apply AI in your personal life to boost healthy eating, exercising, researching big purchases like buying a car, and developing new skills.

Use ChatGPT to build protein-focused, low-carb food lists and meals, generate recipes and nutritional estimates, and create a daily meal plan while noting limits of AI guidance.

Create a pickleball‑focused exercise plan with ai help from ChatGPT, tailored to agility, strength, and endurance, with day‑by‑day drills and kettlebell options.

Learn to use AI for major purchases, such as narrowing electric car options, generating a five-car shortlist, and comparing performance, dimensions, and interior space.

ChatGPT helps you determine your risk profile for investing. Then build a tailored, moderately aggressive to aggressive portfolio with one-question-at-a-time guidance on asset allocation, stocks, bonds, and crypto.

Learn to play with AI by using ChatGPT to create interactive games, plan a game night, choose options, and learn basic rules for games like unstable unicorns and cribbage.

Anticipate a future where artificial intelligence becomes more prevalent and embedded in daily life, advancing healthcare and diagnosis, blending with internet search capabilities, while guarding against deepfakes and misuse.

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