ChatGPT + Generative AI + Prompt Engineering for Beginners

If you are completely new to the AI world, then this course is for you. Whether you're a student, freelancer, content creator, or working professional, this beginner-friendly course will help you understand and use the tools that are shaping the future of work and communication.

At the heart of this course is ChatGPT, a powerful AI chatbot built by OpenAI using advanced Generative AI. ChatGPT can write, explain, brainstorm, summarize, translate, create images, and even help with coding — all through natural, human-like conversations. You’ll learn how to use ChatGPT to speed up your work, generate content, solve problems, and bring ideas to life.

But ChatGPT is just one part of a bigger picture. This course also introduces you to the core concept behind it: Generative AI. Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that creates new content — not just text, but also images, audio, video, code, and more.

To use these tools effectively, you need to learn Prompt Engineering — the essential skill of writing clear, specific instructions (called prompts) to guide AI. Since AI doesn't “understand” like humans do, your input has to be carefully written to get accurate, high-quality results. This course teaches you how to craft effective prompts, provide context, define tone or format, and refine your output step by step.

Added new section on AI Agents and Agentic AI.

What You'll Learn:

• ChatGPT fundamentals

• ChatGPT best practices

• ChatGPT prompts

• ChatGPT Real-world use cases

• ChatGPT advanced features

• AI Fundamentals

• Generative AI Fundamentals

• Prompt Engineering

• Prompt Engineering techniques

• AI Agents and Agentic AI

• Multimodal AI

• Text-to-Speech AI

• Speech-to-Text AI

• Learn RAG Retrieval-Augmented Generation) Fundamentals

• Google NotebookLM AI Tool

• NotebookLM Use cases

  
  

What is ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is a smart AI chatbot developed by OpenAI. It can understand what you type and respond in a natural, human-like way. You can use ChatGPT to:

• Write blogs, emails, or social media content

• Get help with coding and debugging

• Summarize long articles or documents

• Translate languages

• Brainstorm ideas

• Ask questions and learn anything faster

It’s like having a helpful assistant that’s available 24/7 — fast, creative, and easy to use.

What is Generative AI?

Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that creates new content based on what you ask. This could be:

• Text (like ChatGPT’s answers)

• Images (AI art and design)

• Code, audio, video

Instead of just analyzing data, generative AI produces new things. It learns from tons of data and uses that knowledge to generate original content. This technology is changing the way we work, learn, and create — and it’s only just getting started.

What is Prompt Engineering?

Prompt engineering is the skill of giving AI the right instructions to get the best results. Since AI doesn’t think like a human, it depends completely on how you ask.

A good prompt gives clear direction. A poor prompt gives poor results.

In this course, you’ll learn how to:

• Write better prompts to get smarter answers

• Add context, tone, and style to guide the AI

• Use examples to improve output

• Important prompt engineering techniques - Role-Based Prompting, Instruction-Based Prompting, Few-Shot Prompting, Chain-of-Thought Prompting, Zero-Shot Prompting, Refinement Prompting, and more.

Prompt engineering helps you unlock the full power of ChatGPT and generative AI — for any use case.

What is AI Agents?

An AI Agent is a software system that understands a goal, reasons about what to do, uses tools when needed, takes actions, observes results, and returns or improves the outcome.

An AI Agent is not just a simple chatbot that gives an answer.  A normal chatbot usually receives a question and gives a response. But an AI Agent can understand a goal, create a plan, use tools, perform actions, check the result, and then give the final output. That is why an AI Agent is more powerful than a basic question-answer system.

What is NotebookLM?

Google's NotebookLM is an AI-powered research and writing assistant that helps you understand, organize, and work with your own information by creating a personalized AI grounded in your uploaded documents like PDFs, Google Docs, and web pages, allowing you to summarize, ask questions, brainstorm, and generate study aids from your specific sources. Unlike general chatbots, it focuses on your provided content to provide accurate, source-based insights, acting as a virtual research assistant to find answers and generate ideas from your materials.

What you will learn about NotebookLM AI Tool:

• Learn about NotebookLM

• Use chat in NotebookLM

• Create a notebook in NotebookLM

• Add or discover new sources for your notebook

• Create & add notes in NotebookLM

• Use Mind Maps in NotebookLM

• Generate Audio Overview in NotebookLM

• Generate Video Overviews in NotebookLM

• Generate an Infographic in NotebookLM

• Generate a Slide Deck in NotebookLM

• Generate a Quiz in NotebookLM

• Generate a Reports in NotebookLM

• Generate a Flashcards in NotebookLM

• Use public notebooks and featured notebooks in NotebookLM

By the end of this course, you’ll be confident using ChatGPT, NotebookLM, understand how generative AI works, and know how to write great prompts that save time, boost creativity, and improve your results.

Join now and take your first step into the future with AI!