
Discover how modern AI models are built, and why they can't become genuinely useful without human judgement. This opening lecture introduces the three stages of training and the single idea the whole course rests on: you are not building the AI, you are setting the standard it learns from.
Go deeper into supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning from human feedback. See exactly where your comparisons and ratings enter the process and become the signal the model learns from - including newer methods like direct preference optimisation and AI-assisted evaluation.
Learn to classify any task by its deliverable rather than its topic, and see the reasoning that separates a professional judgement from a lucky guess.
Understand the industry you're entering: the platforms, the AI labs behind them, and why they measure evaluator quality so relentlessly. Learn how the work reaches you and why quality history - not speed - becomes your most valuable asset.
Learn the three money rules every professional evaluator follows. Calculate your true effective hourly rate, understand why task flow is unpredictable, and see why working across several platforms protects your income. Includes a downloadable rate calculator.
Tour every type of paid AI-training task, from comparison and rating through to red teaming, multimodal, and agentic evaluation. See where the highest-volume work sits and which families reward the skills you already have.
Turn the tour into a plan. Build a personal target list — a primary, a secondary, and a stretch task family — grounded in evidence rather than aspiration, and set the direction for the rest of your training.
Master the first two of the four core skills every platform tests. Learn to follow a guideline exactly — even against your instincts — and to read like an auditor, catching the fluent, confident answers that are quietly wrong.
Master the final two core skills. Learn to anchor your ratings to a scale before scoring, and to justify every decision with evidence, criterion, and consequence — the standard that marks you as a serious professional.
Learn how platforms actually recruit: the profile, the entry assessment, identity verification, and project tests. Write achievements that get noticed, claim only what you can demonstrate, and understand what screening really looks for.
Prepare for automated and AI-led interviews, and sit a realistic simulated entry assessment under proper conditions. Learn why thinking aloud matters, and use your score to decide your next step honestly.
Set yourself up properly as an independent contractor. Learn to handle payments, keep records, withdraw earnings promptly, and avoid the common scams — the unglamorous foundations that keep you working and paid.
Learn the three key rules that protect your account and reputation, understand how quality history compounds into better work, and receive the full briefing for your Level 1 Assessment.
AI companies worldwide are hiring people to do one thing their machines cannot do for themselves: judge whether an answer is genuinely good, accurate, relevant, and safe. This work is called AI training, or AI evaluation, and demand for skilled people is growing fast. Yet most who try to enter the field struggle with the entry assessments and interviews. Not because they lack intelligence, but because nobody has taught them the actual craft.
This course teaches that craft from the ground up. You'll learn how modern AI models are trained, where the paid evaluation work comes from, and most importantly, how to do the core work to a professional standard: reading a guideline the way an experienced evaluator does, catching a confident answer that is quietly wrong, calibrating a rating scale, comparing two responses fairly, and writing a justification a reviewer will trust.
Everything is hands-on and original. You'll work through real exercises with worked answer keys, sit a simulated entry assessment built like the ones platforms actually use, and receive templates you'll keep using in your own work. Every marking standard is shown openly, no mystery, no hype.
This is Level 1 - Foundations. It gives you the complete entry-level craft and prepares you to apply to AI training platforms with genuine competence. No technical background is required. If you can read carefully, think clearly, and follow a standard precisely, you can learn this, and by the end, you'll have practised the exact skills platform assessments test. Level 2-4 of the AI Training Pathways course provides you skills to obtain higher paid tasks and roles on the AI Training and Evaluator Platforms.