1. Start Here: Your First Five Minutes with AI

The lesson

An AI assistant is a service you can talk to by typing or speaking. It generates a response based on your request.

Treat its answer as a draft or estimate, not proof.

You can ask follow-up questions: the conversation is part of the tool.

Notice that you do not need to start again. Your second instruction changes the answer within the same conversation.

Try it

Open www.chat.com. Find the message box and ask the assistant to explain something you already understand.

If you cannot think of a subject, ask: Explain why we have seasons.

When it replies, say:

Make that shorter and give me one example.

If you get stuck

You may be asked to sign in or create an account, and the service may work differently in different places. If you cannot reach the message box, use the General AI Assistants Tool Card to find another way to continue.

Checkpoint

You received an answer, asked for one change and can explain how the second response was more useful.

About this course

Confident with AI was created by Charli-Jo Tyrer in association with the Technology Association of Visually Impaired People (TAVIP).

Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.