AI Essentials for Everyday Life
This beginner-friendly course is designed to demystify artificial intelligence and empower participants to use AI tools for real impact in personal and professional life. With a “laptop-open” approach, every session is hands-on, interactive, and customized by Toby Usnik to address each client’s unique needs, pain points, crises, opportunities, and ambitions. Participants learn through guided exercises and real-world scenarios relevant to their context, rapidly building the confidence and fluency needed to integrate AI into daily workflows.
What you’ll learn
- The evolution and basics of artificial intelligence, contextualized for your industry or situation.
- How Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming work and daily life, with tangible examples.
- The benefits and challenges of using AI, including legal and security considerations drawn from participant concerns.
- Practical, real-world solutions addressing your most pressing questions and priorities.
- Hands-on laptop exercises: Interactive activities to immediately apply AI tools to your own tasks and challenges, accelerating skills through direct practice..
Course Content
- Introduction –> 3 lectures • 5min.
- Lecture 3 – Overview of the Major Large Language Models (LLMs) –> 2 lectures • 8min.
- LLM: CoPilot from Microsoft –> 1 lecture • 7min.
- LLM: Perplexity –> 1 lecture • 1min.
- LLM: Grok by Elon Musk and X –> 1 lecture • 7min.
- LLM: Gemini by Google –> 1 lecture • 8min.
- LLM: Claude by Anthropic –> 1 lecture • 12min.
- LLM: ChatGPT by OpenAI –> 1 lecture • 9min.
- LLM: DeepSeek fom China –> 1 lecture • 3min.
- Prompting: A Basic Intro –> 1 lecture • 11min.
- AI for Work and Career –> 1 lecture • 43min.
- AI and Bias –> 1 lecture • 9min.
- Next Steps –> 1 lecture • 17min.
Requirements
This beginner-friendly course is designed to demystify artificial intelligence and empower participants to use AI tools for real impact in personal and professional life. With a “laptop-open” approach, every session is hands-on, interactive, and customized by Toby Usnik to address each client’s unique needs, pain points, crises, opportunities, and ambitions. Participants learn through guided exercises and real-world scenarios relevant to their context, rapidly building the confidence and fluency needed to integrate AI into daily workflows.
What You’ll Learn
- The evolution and basics of artificial intelligence, contextualized for your industry or situation
- How Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming work and daily life, with tangible examples
- The benefits and challenges of using AI, including legal and security considerations drawn from participant concerns
- Practical, real-world solutions addressing your most pressing questions and priorities
Hands-on laptop exercises: Interactive activities to immediately apply AI tools to your own tasks and challenges, accelerating skills through direct practice.
Anyone curious about AI—no technical background required. Ideal for professionals, entrepreneurs, teams, and organizations seeking practical, hands-on experience to master AI and drive growth. This beginner-friendly course is designed to demystify artificial intelligence and empower participants to use AI tools for real impact in personal and professional life.