AI For Beginners: Master LLMs and learn TOP Prompting

Understand what AI is, from its origins to its modern focus on large language models and text generation. Explore generative AI and GenAI, including multimodal capabilities and applications.

Compare traditional search engines like Google and Bing with large language models such as ChatGPT and Claude, and see how prompts and conversation customize results beyond ads and subscription requirements.

Explore essential ai terms such as generative ai and large language models (llms). Understand training data, model bias, prompting, and use cases that shape how models generate text and outputs.

Explore model-specific terms such as knowledge cutoff, token, context window, parameter, and open versus closed source. Understand how these terms distinguish different models and prepare for future model comparisons.

Explore large language models by navigating their interfaces and testing identical prompts to compare responses; a handout details each model's specifics, and there is no single best model; test them.

Discover ChatGPT, the most famous large language model, and learn to navigate the web interface, choose GPT-4 zero or mini, review chat history, and test prompts.

Explore Claude, the AI assistant from former ChatGPT founders, log in, start chats, and compare Claude 3.5 sonnet, opus, and haiku while trying model prompts.

Explore Meta AI across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, compare its chat format to ChatGPT, and study prompts and response styles through examples like explaining freedom and comforting a friend.

Explore Google's Gemini foundation model through a familiar chat interface and practice prompts. See how it explains freedom as autonomy, independence, agency, and absence of constraint.

Perplexity acts as a search engine that uses a large language model to answer with sources, supports pro search, and delivers internet-connected research results.

Explore prompting ideologies and techniques for structuring prompts, discover a top prompting framework, and watch an in-depth live example, plus tips and tricks for better results.

Master practical prompting techniques for large language models, including zero-shot, few-shot, chain-of-thought, and task decomposition. Learn to avoid generic prompts and craft personalized prompts.

Discover the top prompting framework: train with role, audience, and examples; define shots and expectations; then issue the order, handle questions, and provide specific feedback to perfect results.

See a live demonstration of the top prompting framework in action with ChatGPT, generating a LinkedIn post and reviewing the chat to highlight framework examples.

Improve your AI interactions with practical prompting tips: speak to it like a person, be polite, and don't rush; keep chats and fact-check as you apply these use cases.

Explore how to implement AI in daily life across personal and professional contexts, showcasing what's possible and encouraging a creative AI mindset rather than chasing perfect prompts.

Learn how ai explains quantum physics in simple terms through relatable golf and car analogies, using prompts in ChatGPT to tailor explanations.

Leverage AI for idea generation and brainstorming to create ten low-cost home business ideas with brief explanations and a step-by-step plan for market research and setup.

Practice giving and receiving specific feedback to improve writing, story pacing, character development, and plot structure, and apply critique to life and business plans.

Practice tough conversations through role playing to build confidence in requesting a raise from a tough boss in a safe, controlled environment.

Discover how large language models tailor workouts to your context, creating bodyweight routines you can do with furniture, in 30 minutes, three days a week, with chat-saving and feedback features.

Learn to summarize meeting transcripts and documents with ai-powered tools. Extract main topics, decisions, announcements, and follow-up tasks for distribution to attendees.

Learn to perform sentiment analysis for a business using a meta format prompt, generating themes, sentiment, and actionable insights. Create customer profiles and competitor analysis to inform strategy.

Develop a new AI mindset and apply it to daily life by exploring AI apps on your phone, using voice features, and trying two major models to implement generative AI.

Embrace slow ai as a deliberate co-creator, collaborating with ai to craft tailored, high-quality outputs that reflect your voice by improving input quality and thoughtful prompts.

Embrace the learning process of ai, try new prompts, start new chats, and adjust your approach to improve results, keeping a growth mindset and not giving up.

Take these final thoughts as a starting point to continue your artificial intelligence journey by following the resources and staying connected with me. Ask questions below to deepen your understanding.