ChatGPT & Beyond: Hands-on with AI Productivity Tools

This course introduces you to practical AI tools, focusing on hands-on learning to boost productivity and comfort with AI applications. You'll explore ChatGPT, AI image generation, content creation tools, presentation generation, video production, and text enhancement, gaining the skills to integrate AI into everyday tasks efficiently.

This lesson introduces four key AI platforms used in the course: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Microsoft’s Copilot, and Google’s Gemini. Each platform offers unique capabilities, with ChatGPT and Perplexity focusing on writing, research, and problem-solving, while Copilot and Gemini provide powerful alternatives for building a comprehensive AI toolkit.

A prompt in AI is the input or instruction given to an AI model, guiding it on how to generate a response. It’s essential for achieving the desired output, as a well-crafted prompt helps the AI understand context, tone, and specific requirements for tasks like answering questions, generating text, or creating images.

This lesson briefly touches on Large Language Models (LLMs), which are advanced AI systems trained on vast amounts of text to understand and generate human-like language. You'll learn how LLMs process language, enabling them to assist with tasks like writing, summarizing, and answering questions across various domains.

This lesson covers the essentials of ChatGPT, including its basic functions and how to navigate its user interface. You’ll learn how to input prompts, access different settings, and make the most of its features for efficient interaction.

This video explores the critical distinction between using online AI tools like ChatGPT and in-house AI solutions, focusing on data privacy, customization, and control. It provides an overview of the benefits of in-house AI, such as enhanced security, compliance with regulations, cost management, and performance optimization, and highlights key considerations for choosing the right AI platform for organizational needs.

This video explains the fundamentals of chatbot training, which involves teaching AI systems to understand user inputs, respond accurately, and continuously improve through data refinement and interaction. It highlights the distinction between training large-scale chatbots like ChatGPT and tailoring in-house AI chatbots for specific business needs, emphasizing the iterative process of enhancing accuracy, context awareness, and user experience.

This video introduces the basics of using Perplexity, including navigating its user interface, creating and managing threads, organizing research, and leveraging features like source selection, AI model customization, and image or video generation. It highlights the platform's similarities to ChatGPT while showcasing unique tools for personalized and efficient research and collaboration.

This video provides an overview of the different ChatGPT models, highlighting their unique features, strengths, and limitations to help users choose the right model for various tasks, from casual use to advanced problem-solving. It also explains how these models evolve with each release, enhancing efficiency, versatility, and user experience.

This video provides an overview of ChatGPT and Perplexity pricing options, detailing the features and benefits of their free, pro, team, and enterprise plans. It helps viewers understand the value of each tier, enabling them to choose the most suitable plan for personal or business use.

This lesson introduces Google's Gemini, a versatile AI platform, highlighting its advanced features such as contextual awareness, natural language understanding, and customizable AI assistants. Through a demo, it showcases Gemini's capabilities in tasks like writing, coding, and maintaining conversational context, positioning it as a strong alternative to ChatGPT and Perplexity.

This lesson provides an overview of the ChatGPT and Perplexity mobile apps, highlighting their unique features such as voice interaction, photo analysis, and enhanced user interfaces tailored for mobile devices. It emphasizes the convenience and additional functionalities offered by these apps, making AI more accessible and versatile for productivity and learning on the go.

This lesson focuses on constructing effective AI prompts by emphasizing clarity, specificity, and completeness to achieve better results. It highlights common pitfalls in poorly written prompts and offers strategies for refining questions to maximize the quality of AI responses.

This lesson demonstrates how to craft effective prompts for AI by focusing on clear objectives, specific requests, and a focused scope. Through practical examples, it highlights how small tweaks can significantly improve AI responses, especially in creative and targeted scenarios.

This lesson explores the use of role-playing in ChatGPT prompt creation to generate more context-specific and effective responses. By simulating various personas, such as a disgruntled airline passenger, a sixth-grade teacher, or a life coach, the lesson demonstrates how role-playing can enhance AI interactions for education, customer service, and personal development.

ChatGPT’s memory feature allows it to retain information about users and past conversations, improving the relevance and personalization of responses over time. This lesson explores how prompts shape ChatGPT’s memory, the importance of custom instructions, and how users can manage, update, and clear stored details. By effectively using memory settings, users can create a more efficient, tailored AI experience, ensuring ChatGPT remembers key details while respecting privacy and control preferences.

This lesson explores how AI can streamline document analysis, allowing users to extract key information, summarize complex texts, and compare multiple documents effortlessly. Through hands-on demonstrations, you’ll see how ChatGPT processes lengthy PDFs, rewrites content with adjusted tone and length, generates structured slide bullet points, and even provides interactive editing tools—all of which significantly boost productivity and reduce manual effort.

In this lesson, you'll learn how to use AI tools like ChatGPT to analyze images, extract meaningful insights, and ask detailed questions about visual content. From identifying fashion items and monitoring retail shelves to interpreting famous artworks and assisting in medical diagnostics, this skill demonstrates how AI image recognition is transforming industries and enhancing everyday tasks.

In this lesson, you'll learn how to use AI tools like ChatGPT to quickly analyze spreadsheet data, generate charts, and answer complex queries without writing code. From stock market insights to product descriptions and SEO content, the demo shows how AI transforms raw data into powerful, actionable outputs in seconds.

In this lesson, we explore how to use ChatGPT to generate high-quality blog content by crafting clear prompts, setting the right tone, and building structured outlines. You'll also learn why proofreading and adding your personal touch are essential for transforming AI output into engaging, original writing.