Learn to augment and amplify your human creativity and critical thinking with Generative AI. By the end of the course, you will be able to use Generative AI as an exoskeleton for your mind. In this hands-on specialization, you will learn how to tap into the emerging capabilities of large language models to automate tasks, increase productivity, and augment human intelligence. Through a series of practical courses, you will gain skills to apply these tools in your work, education, and daily life.
The specialization provides starts at the beginning with fundamental knowledge and moves to advanced skills for prompt engineering - the art of crafting instructions for large language models. You will start from basics and by the end, be capable of leveraging these models' reasoning abilities for a wide range of automation and intelligence augmentation applications. By the end of the specialization, you will be able to use prompts and conversations with ChatGPT to accomplish amazing feats such as:
writing and outlining 10X faster brainstorming new ways of solving problems planning complex events, trips, processes, etc. automatically generating PowerPoint presentations and visualizations from Excel data extracting key information from PDFs and documents producing marketing content from transcripts and videos or that are personalized for specific customers
Overview
Syllabus
Course 1: Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT
- Offered by Vanderbilt University. ChatGPT and other large language models are going to be more important in your life and business than your ... Enroll for free.
Course 2: ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis
- Offered by Vanderbilt University. ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis is going to transform tasks by helping amplify your productivity and ... Enroll for free.
Course 3: Trustworthy Generative AI
- Offered by Vanderbilt University. We see lots of news reports of Generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, making mistakes and producing ... Enroll for free.
- Offered by Vanderbilt University. ChatGPT and other large language models are going to be more important in your life and business than your ... Enroll for free.
Course 2: ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis
- Offered by Vanderbilt University. ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis is going to transform tasks by helping amplify your productivity and ... Enroll for free.
Course 3: Trustworthy Generative AI
- Offered by Vanderbilt University. We see lots of news reports of Generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, making mistakes and producing ... Enroll for free.
Courses
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ChatGPT and other large language models are going to be more important in your life and business than your smartphone, if you use them right. ChatGPT can tutor your child in math, generate a meal plan and recipes, write software applications for your business, help you improve your personal cybersecurity, and that is just in the first hour that you use it. This course will teach you how to be an expert user of these generative AI tools. The course will show amazing examples of how you can tap into these generative AI tools' emergent intelligence and reasoning, how you can use them to be more productive day to day, and give you insight into how they work.
Large language models respond to instructions and questions posed by users in natural language statements, known as “prompts”. Although large language models will disrupt many fields, most users lack the skills to write effective prompts. Expert users, who understand how to write good prompts, are orders of magnitude more productive and can unlock significantly more creative uses for these tools.
This course introduces students to the patterns and approaches for writing effective prompts for large language models. Anyone can take the course and the only required knowledge is basic computer usage skills, such as using a browser and accessing ChatGPT. Students will start with basic prompts and build towards writing sophisticated prompts to solve problems in any domain. By the end of the course, students will have strong prompt engineering skills and be capable of using large language models for a wide range of tasks in their job, business, personal life, and education, such as writing, summarization, game play, planning, simulation, and programming. -
ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis is going to transform tasks by helping amplify your productivity and supporting your creativity. ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis can help you augment your intelligence and automate tasks, such as:
1. Turning an Excel file into visualizations and then slides inside a PowerPoint presentation; extracting data from a series of PDFs
2. Answering questions about what is in the PDFs, and visualizing the data; automatically determining if a receipt complies with a travel policy captured in a PDF
3. Transforming a document into a training presentation and associated quizzes; reading and reorganizing a set of documents based on what they contain
4. Producing social media and marketing content from a series of documents or video transcripts
5. Automating resizing and editing of videos/images while also cataloging them in a CSV
Anyone with ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis can tap into these capabilities without any prior experience in programming. The course teaches you how to converse with ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis to accomplish these tasks, how to think about problem solving, and what types of tasks are good fits for the tool. You will learn a wide range of building blocks that you can apply in your own work and life.
Large language models respond to instructions and questions posed by users in natural language statements, known as “prompts”. Although large language models will disrupt many fields, most users lack the skills to write effective prompts. Expert users, who understand how to write good prompts, are orders of magnitude more productive and can unlock significantly more creative uses for these tools. This course will introduce you to prompt writing skills that target ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis. -
We see lots of news reports of Generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, making mistakes and producing inaccurate information. Many of these mistakes happen because humans use the tools in the wrong way - trying to solve unsuitable problems and not thinking about risk. Hallucination isn't a bug, it's a feature when you approach problems correctly. This course teaches techniques for determining if a problem fits Generative AI's capabilities, framing problems to reduce risk, prompt engineering for trust, and appropriate human engagement in the process. Students learn concrete prompt designs, how to check outputs, how to use Generative AI for ideation and creation, ways to augment human skills, and more ethical, beneficial applications.
The course will show how you can:
- Leverage prompt engineering techniques to generate more reliable outputs
- Master methods to verify and validate outputs
- Frame problems in alternative ways to reduce risk
- Apply generative AI for creative ideation
- Use Generative AI in ways that augment rather than replace human reasoning and creativity
Taught by
Dr. Jules White
