
Explore generative AI essentials for practical use cases, including content creation and data analysis. Learn prompts, workflows, and an AWS bedrock capstone to build an AI chatbot and image generator.
Explore artificial intelligence and its major branches, including machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing, and discover the evolution, applications, and trends of generative AI.
Learn how generative ai creates new content—from images to text—by learning from large data sets, and trace its evolution from foundation models to modern applications.
Explore the application domains of generative ai, including image generation, natural language processing, healthcare, art, content creation, and immersive simulations, plus trends toward collaboration and ethical ai.
Discover the four layers of the ai ecosystem—hardware, programming languages and platforms, models, and applications—and how they enable development, training, and deployment of ai solutions across industries.
Explore generative adversarial networks (gan) and how the generator and discriminator duel to create realistic data, enabling applications in images, music, text, and medical imaging.
Variational autoencoders encode inputs into a probabilistic latent space and decode samples to reconstruct or generate new data, offering structured compression, interpretability, and controlled generation.
Foundation models are multimodal AI engines trained on massive, diverse data, including text and images, using transformers like GPT-3, DALL-E, and CLIP to enable image recognition and speech processing.
Learn how large language models, a text-to-text foundation technology driven by transformers, enable translation, summarization, and meaningful coding help, while addressing bias and misinformation risks.
Learn how retrieval augmented generation (rag) enhances large language models by retrieving relevant knowledge and augmenting prompts. This technique boosts accuracy, creativity, and domain-specific performance.
Explore popular generative ai tools—ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot—and learn how to access, prompt, and explore their capabilities in a practical workshop.
Explore prompt engineering to craft precise prompts for generative AI, learn its structure and best practices, and see how clear instructions boost model performance, efficiency, and creativity.
Explore the anatomy of prompts, including keywords, instructions, constraints, and format and structure, and apply best practices for clarity, conciseness, context, and evaluation.
Explore prompt anatomy with ChatGPT by examining keywords, instructions, constraints, and formatting, then apply these components to tasks like summarization, DevOps principles, and email writing.
Explore zero-shot and few-shot prompting to guide language models without or with minimal examples, then master chain-of-thought prompting and knowledge injection to improve accuracy and transparency.
Explore practical prompt engineering with ChatGPT, learning zero-shot and few-shot contexts to guide outputs. Discover real-world use cases of summarization, code generation, travel planning, and creative writing powered by GPT.
Explore practical use cases of generative AI, from crafting emails and summarizing content to creating blogs, videos, presentations, data analyses, and websites, while prioritizing data privacy and security.
Explore practical techniques for using generative AI to craft professional emails in business contexts, mastering clear communication, tone, and timely responses for negotiations, client interactions, and internal communications.
Demonstrate how to summarize long emails and proposals for managers using ChatGPT, extracting project overview, goals, budget, deadlines, and next steps for quick understanding.
Explore how generative AI powers PDF reading as a conversation with Ask Your PDF, enabling quick summaries and interactive questions to extract key points for informed decisions.
Explore generative AI power tools for efficient content creation across blogs, YouTube videos, and shorts, using Gravity Right to generate blog outlines, scripts, and reels.
Explore a hands-on demo of text to image generation with hotpot AI for social visuals. Use prompts, styles, and stock photos to create realistic images with a commercial use license.
Transform written content into engaging videos with generative AI, creating short videos from prompts for YouTube Shorts and other social platforms.
Create visually stunning presentations in seconds with generative AI and tools like Visme. Learn to use prompts, templates, and AI designer features while balancing human input.
Leverage generative ai to design your brand logo by entering your business name, industry, and preferences, and customize templates to establish a polished brand identity.
Utilize generative AI to automatically record, transcribe, and summarize meetings, then share concise insights and action items with your team using tools like Mijikai, Dot AI, and Microsoft Teams transcription.
See how ChatGPT speeds IT development by generating Python code, converting to Java, testing, and hosting a port 80 site with one course.
See how Data Squirrel uses generative AI to clean and analyze data, producing AI-driven charts of revenue by product category over time while noting data security considerations.
Demonstrates building a complete website from scratch without code, using Gen AI tools like ChatGPT and prompt engineering to generate HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap.
Learn how to deploy a static website to an AWS ubuntu server using ChatGPT to generate deployment steps, configure nginx, transfer files, and enable HTTPS for global access.
Explore Google Vertex AI Studio's generative AI capabilities, including prompt management, model tuning, grounding, and code generation, with hands-on demos of image, audio, and text outputs.
Explore ai risks, including fake content, misinformation in politics, fraud in finance, and privacy and security concerns. Examine bias amplification, ai decision making, accountability, and copyright issues for responsible use.
Explore fairness and equity, transparency, privacy and data protection, and accountability as guiding principles for the ethical and responsible use of generative AI, building trust and safeguarding rights.
Engage diverse users and scenarios to gather feedback, plan ahead, and select suitable metrics; ensure unbiased training data, test across conditions, monitor post-deployment, and address ai risks.
Conceive and build a complete generative AI application using AWS Bedrock and Flask, guided by Python skills, prompt engineering, hands-on workshop, and ethical considerations.
Discover AWS Bedrock, a unified API for foundation models, with fine-tuning on your data to build secure chatbots and agents. Explore tokens, embeddings, and secure experimentation in the playground.
Explore Amazon Bedrock in this demo, including foundation models like Titan for chat, text, and image, with hands-on playgrounds, model access, and Bedrock API integration.
Capstone project using AWS Bedrock to build a Flask web app with text-to-text and text-to-image generation, powered by Anthropic LOD v2 and Stable Diffusion X1 v1 via Bedrock.
Demonstrate a capstone chatbot built on AWS Bedrock by configuring IAM, CLI, and a Flask app implementing Bedrock text-to-text and text-to-image models.
What's Covered in this Course?
The "Generative AI Essentials - Practical Use Cases" course is tailored for learners of all levels, from beginners to seasoned professionals eager to explore the world of Generative AI through effective Prompt Engineering. This course serves as your gateway to mastering generative AI, offering essential concepts and practical, hands-on experience.
We'll begin with an overview of Generative AI, tracing its evolution within the broader AI ecosystem, and then cover essential GenAI terminologies. Following this, we'll examine the fundamental concepts of prompt engineering and its best practices. The core of this course is practical use cases—domain-specific scenarios designed to streamline and enhance your daily workflows. We will also address the potential risks and challenges of using Generative AI. Finally, we'll conclude with an exciting capstone project utilizing AWS Bedrock.
Whether you're new to AI or have some experience, this course will guide you through foundational concepts and each stage of learning.
What is Generative AI?
Generative AI is a subset of artificial intelligence capable of creating new content, including images, videos, music, text, code, and more. It achieves this by learning from extensive datasets of existing information and leveraging that knowledge to produce fresh, clean, and precise outputs.
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Student Testimonials:
★★★★★ "A clear, concise and well-paced course which is suitable for all. The instructor goes through many interesting and relevant topics and even includes practical examples and exercises. I highly recommend this course to anyone."
★★★★★ "This course combines clear instruction with hands-on exercises, offering a practical and insightful journey into the world of generative AI. Highly recommended for anyone eager to explore this exciting field!."
★★★★★ "As a novice to GenAI concepts, I am throughly enjoying, great animations to explain concepts in understandable way so far. The best part of this course is the hands-on use cases."
Course Structure:
Lectures
Demos
Quizzes
Assignments
Course Contents:
Getting Started with GenAI
GenAI Terminologies:
- Generative adversarial networks (GANs)
- Variational Autoencoder (VAEs)
- Foundational Models (FMs)
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
Prompt Engineering
Hands-On Use Cases on GenAI Tools & Platforms:
- Email Composition
- Summarization
- Pdf Reader | Chat with PDF
- Content Creation: blogs, YouTube video etc
- Text to Image
- Text to Video
- Creating Presentations
- Product & Fashion Photo Shoots
- Design Your Brand logo
- Capture and Share Insights from Virtual Meetings
- Coding and Development
- Data Analysis
- Building Website with Generative AI
- Deploying Website with Generative AI
Responsible Generative AI
Potential Risks
Ethical Considerations
Best Practices
Capstone Project using AWS Bedrock
Course Update:
May 09, 2025 - Added a new lecture on "Google Vertex AI Studio"
May 12, 2025 - Added a new lecture on "Google Firebase Studio for Building Projects"
All sections of this course are demonstrated live, providing step-by-step guidance to help you set up your local environment, perform all exercises, and learn through hands-on practice.