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How AI Tools Work

Learn what AI tools actually do, which of the four kinds fits a job, what to check before you trust an answer, and how to run your first real task through one.

  • Beginner
  • 21 lessons
  • 47 min to complete
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What it covers

What your people will learn.

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By the end you can explain in one sentence what every famous AI tool is doing, route any task in your week to the right kind of tool, and run one of your own repeating jobs through it.

Most beginners meet a blank box, type three words into it the way they would type into a search engine, get something generic back and quietly decide the category is overhyped. The missing pieces are small. One idea explains every one of these tools, there are only four kinds of them underneath the brand names, and both of the lines that protect you, the one you check before trusting an answer and the one you check before pasting, fit on a postcard.

This course is in plain words, with no jargon and nothing to install. The products named in it were read on the vendors' own pages this month, and where a product changes every quarter, you get the durable rule instead.

You walk away with a brief you can reuse, a way of deciding what to hand over and what to hold back, and one task of yours already running through a tool you picked on purpose.

Who it's for

Owners and operators who never started: plumbers, florists, accountants, cafe owners who have heard about AI for years and never built a picture of what it is.

Anyone who tried it once: typed three words into a chatbot, got mush back and filed it under overhyped. This explains exactly what happened.

Anyone quietly embarrassed to ask: assumes everybody else already understands this. They do not.

The lessons

21 lessons, in order.

About 47 min to complete. Add the course and every lesson is yours to publish as it is, or to edit.

  1. The Machine That Finishes Your Sentence2 min
  2. Three Words Gets You the Average1 min
  3. It Only Knows What You Told It1 min
  4. Name the Wrong Model8 min
  5. What It Is Knowledge Check1 min
  6. The Four Kinds of AI Tool2 min
  7. The Kind That Shows Its Sources1 min
  8. Route Three Jobs4 min
  9. The Four Kinds Knowledge Check1 min
  10. Pattern Work or Precision Work1 min
  11. Call Six Tasks6 min
  12. Why It Makes Things Up2 min
  13. The Thirty Second Check2 min
  14. What to Trust Knowledge Check1 min
  15. Where Your Words Go2 min
  16. What Never Goes in the Window2 min
  17. Summarise the Client's Financials3 min
  18. When the Paid Plan Is Worth It2 min
  19. Your First Five Minutes2 min
  20. Run Your First Real Task2 min
  21. Start Using It Knowledge Check1 min

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    Type / in any lesson to add practice, from explain it back to drills and scenarios. Your people can ask the AI tutor about any lesson.

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