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AI Foundations

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Lesson 1Week 1: What AI Can Actually Do

Beyond the chatbox: what AI assistants really are

What you'll learn
  1. 1Explain why ChatGPT and Claude generate answers rather than looking them up like a search engine
  2. 2Adopt the "brief a colleague, don't query a search box" mental model
  3. 3Identify why a briefed prompt reliably beats a lazy one
  4. 4Describe what this course will equip you to do

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