The Moment Everything Changed

Watch this

Watch this. I ask an A I assistant, explain black holes to a five year old. And in three seconds, this is what comes back. Every single word of that answer was written just now, by a machine. It was never stored anywhere. It did not exist, one second ago.

This is generative A I. And many experts believe it is the biggest shift in technology since the internet. In just a few years, it learned to write, to paint, to make music, and to code. And by the end of this course, you will understand exactly how it works, how to use it like a professional, and how to build with it yourself.

Why this matters to you

Why does this matter to you? Because it is a tool that works with words, pictures, sound, and code, which is almost everything we do at a computer. It can write emails and reports in seconds. It can help programmers build software faster. It can create images, music, and video, from a single sentence. It can be a patient tutor, available at any hour. And it can summarise, translate, and plan. People who learn to use it well, will have a real advantage.

Let's begin. In this first lesson, you will see exactly what generative A I can create, and how it is different from the A I that came before. No experience is needed. Every idea is explained from zero, with pictures, and with simple words.

• See what generative AI can create
• Understand how it differs from older AI
• Zero experience needed

What can generative AI create?

Generative A I is a kind of artificial intelligence that creates new things. It can write text, like stories, emails, and essays. It can create images, from a simple description. It can make music. It can produce short videos. It can write computer code. And it can even speak, in a natural human voice. Every one of these tiles would have been unthinkable for a computer, not very long ago.

Judge or creator?

So what makes this different from the A I we had before? Traditional A I is a judge. It looks at something that already exists, and gives it a label. Is this email spam? Is this photo a cat? Generative A I is a creator. You describe what you want, and it produces something brand new, a story, a picture, or a song. Judge versus creator. That is the heart of the difference.

Where we are going

Here is where we are going. First, the big picture, and the history. Then, how machines learn, with neural networks. Then the magic ingredient, the transformer. After that, how to start talking to these models, with prompts. Then how to start building real apps, with retrieval and agents. And finally, images, safety, and your own projects. Every idea is explained with pictures, and with simple words.

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