Practical AI & GPT: A Beginner’s Guide for Work and Everyday

In this lesson, we place artificial intelligence into a realistic context.

You will learn what AI actually is, which common misconceptions exist, and why a clear and grounded understanding is essential for using it effectively.

You will understand how input, clarity, and structure influence the quality of the results.

Participants learn how to formulate inputs more consciously and understand how clarity, purpose, and structure influence the quality of the results.

This lesson summarizes the key ideas of prompting and connects them to the next topic.

You will see how clarity, purpose, and structure influence results — and why unclear input can lead to misleading or incorrect outputs.

This prepares you for understanding why AI can produce convincing but inaccurate results in the next chapter.

In this lesson, you will learn what so-called “hallucinations” in GPT are and why they occur.

You will understand how to recognize uncertain or fabricated content — and how to handle AI-generated results responsibly.

In this lesson, we look at the responsibility that comes with using AI.

The goal is not only to use results, but to critically review and properly evaluate them.

This lesson concludes Chapter 2 and prepares the transition to the next chapter.

You will briefly reflect on how GPT works and how results can be influenced — setting the foundation for applying these concepts in real situations.

GPT supports you in structuring your thoughts, gaining clarity, and making better decisions.

Learners apply the structured working mode to more complex tasks and develop a more conscious, iterative way of thinking when working with GPT.

Learn how GPT can support your learning process by using a practical example from foreign language learning, helping you structure, understand, and apply new information more effectively.

Learn how to use GPT to bring structure into exam preparation.

Instead of studying without direction, you will learn how to identify priorities, understand complex material, and approach different types of exams with greater clarity, focus, and confidence.

Learn how to use GPT in career-related and professional situations where clarity, structure, and communication are essential. This lesson helps you prepare decisions more consciously, develop stronger arguments, and present yourself more clearly and confidently in professional contexts.

From Chat to System: How to Work with GPT Effectively

Learn how to apply GPT as a consistent working method.

This lesson helps you move from individual use cases to a structured approach that creates clarity, improves decision-making, and can be transferred to any situation.

This companion guide helps you set up your own project assistant in ChatGPT. Follow it alongside the video: pause after each step, try it yourself, and use the checkpoints to see whether it worked.

The guide covers creating a project, saving a document in your Library, adding project instructions, and testing the assistant’s answers. You can copy the instructions from page 6 and the test prompt from page 7. Page 11 introduces optional plugins for when you want to connect other services later.

In this video, you’ll set up a project assistant in ChatGPT, step by step. You’ll create a project, save a course document in your Library, and add instructions that tell the assistant how to use it.

Then you’ll start a new chat and check whether its answers refer to specific information in the document. At the end, you’ll see how to add more materials and explore plugins if you want to connect other services later.

Keep the companion guide open as you follow along. You can copy the instructions from page 6 and the test prompt from page 7.