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Using AI Tools

Two days (09:30 to 16:30 UK time each day)

This course is available in the following formats (all prices exclude VAT):

Classroom (London)
£1,425

Classroom (Manchester)
£1,050

Onsite (your office)
Please ask

Online (your home)
£875

You can book a place on this course either online through this website, by phone, by email or by filling in our enquiry form.

There aren't any particular things you need to know to attend this course, although if you don't use a computer on a day-to-day basis you won't get much out of the two days!

Course schedule

Here are our next few Using AI tools course dates:

Dates	Times	Venue	Price (excl. VAT)
15-16 Jan	09:30-16:30	Online	£875	Book
17-18 Feb	09:30-16:30	Online	£875	Book
25-26 Feb	09:30-16:30	London	£1,425	Book
03-04 Mar	09:30-16:30	Manchester	£1,050	Book
20-21 Mar	09:30-16:30	Online	£875	Book
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Got a handful of like-minded people in your organisation? You could consider booking your own customised onsite course, whereby you get to pick the dates and venue!

Course Contents - PDF

Using AI tools training course contents

There are two ways you can try to cope with the onslaught of AI tools which are transforming the world's workplaces:

Ignore anything to do with AI and hope the tools will all go away (the most tempting strategy).
Learn to use AI as efficiently as possible, so that you can embrace it rather than fear it.

This two-day course (unsurprisingly) shows you how to follow the second path. It includes topics such as how to write a good prompt, how to work with files and images, the costs, strengths and weaknesses of the different tools available ... and much, much more. After writing this course we've started using AI tools as part of almost everything we do in the office, and look forward to sharing this enthusiasm and knowledge with you so that you (and your team?) can become more productive too.

The contents of this course are as follows:

Basic prompt engineering

Giving context
Roles, styles and audience
Output formats
Giving examples

Chatting

Repeating questions
Pausing chats
Expanding on answers
Requesting Q&A sessions

Inputs and outputs

Attaching files
Bullet points and tables
Creating files
The many other output formats

Translating

Translating human languages
Translating coding languages

Choosing an AI tool

Common tools available
Comparing the tools

Copilot for 365

What Copilot 365 does
Why not to use it

How AI works

Tokenisation
Embedding
Why you will never understand LLMs
Limitations of AI tools

Variables and placeholders

Placeholders for instructions
Placeholders as variables
Refining your prompts
Prompt templates

Ways to improve answers

Chain of thought prompts
One-shot and few-shot
Recursive criticism and self-refinement
Temperature and Top P sampling

Generating images

The main tools compared
Generating images
Choosing art styles

Web pages (HTML and CSS)

Mocking up web pages
Creating framework websites
Generating HTML and CSS
Adding JavaScript events

Pair programming

Comparing AI tools and languages
Frequent coding tasks

VBA macros

Setting up for VBA
Creating macros
Keeping code simple
Debugging

Python coding if time

Creating Python programs
Refactoring (global edits)
Debugging
Getting module advice

SQL queries if time

Blind querying
Passing database information
Formatting and refactoring
Optimising queries

OpenAI API overview if time

Accounts and projects
The API playground
Prompting using Python
Examples (moderation, images, speech)

Custom GPTs

Creating custom GPTs
Setting a builder profile
Conversation starters
Saving and revising

A custom GPT case study

Deciding on your aim
Building the GPT
Reviewing the results

Working with ChatGPT

Managing chats
Archiving and deleting

Using AI tools at home

Holiday planning
Choosing what to watch
Life planning
Fun things

Please see further up this page for what you should know beforehand (if anything) in order to attend this course.

Why Choose Us?

Here are some reasons to choose Wise Owl courses:

No more than 6 people per class
551 references viewable online
Free USB stick containing course files
Genuine Wise Owl trainers only
Unbelievably good courseware

In addition, here are some benefits unique to classroom training:

Proper restaurant lunch included

And some benefits specific to online training:

Courseware manual posted to you in advance
Free half-hour pre-course check-up included
Our clever system means you can use our laptops (and we can see them)

What other people have said

Our thanks to everyone who agreed to share their thoughts. All of the following reviews are from the last 3 calendar years:

"Training was very interactive and this helped keep me engaged throughout both days - the course was quite a long one to do over teams but it didn't feel like it."

Caitlin Irving (Sellafield Ltd)

"I like the way the tutors can follow what we are doing, it really helps out and speeds up the learning process! It was an engaging and helpful day, thanks! The course was recommended by several of my colleagues!"

James Brecknell (PricewaterhouseCoopers)

"The course was very well run and our trainer was great!"

Euan Wilkins (Department for Education)

"The course was really engaging and the tutor was knowledgeable and delivered the content at the right pace. The paper workbooks were great as I could make notes for each section. "

Jess Lewis (Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA))

"Thoroughly enjoyed this course and the trainer was absolutely fantastic."

Abbie Edwards (Grosvenor Food & AgTech)

There are lots more where these came from (or just refresh this page to change the quotes shown).

How our training courses work

Below are some notes on how Wise Owl courses work, to help you decide whether they're for you or not.

What you'll need

If you book on a classroom course, the only thing you need to bring to the course is ... yourself! We even provide a notepad and a suprisingly nice pen for you to take notes with.

For online training you'll need two things:

A good internet connection (otherwise you'll have a frustrating time); and
A second screen (a requirement, not a nice-to-have!)

You can see full details of our online course requirements here.

When you book a place

If you book a place on one of our courses:

For classroom courses we will send out a joining email. That's it!
For online courses we will get in touch to organise a half-hour pre-course check to iron out any connection problems before the course (rather than during it).

Whatever type of course you book, we will also send you out a reminder a few days before the course is due to take place - not that (we hope) you'll have forgotten!

What you won't need

For classroom training, you won't need a computer - we (obviously) will provide that. However, you're welcome to use your own laptop if you prefer, providing that you have the correct software installed.

For online training you will need a computer, but you won't need to have any software installed. This is because you'll use Windows Remote Desktop to connect to our computers, and these will have all of the necessary files and software installed.

The start of the course

For online courses you will be able to join up to half an hour before the course begins. This will give you time to:

familiarise yourself with the set-up;
meet your trainer; and
get to know the other delegates!

For classroom training it's always nice if people arrive a bit early too, to give people time to meet each other (and drink coffee).

You'll be given a full colour courseware manual, an exercise booklet to go with the course and a USB stick for taking course files away (we'll post all this to you for online courses).

After the course

After the course finishes you'll receive a digital certificate proving your attendance (we will gladly send a paper copy on request also).

We don't have any formal arrangement for answering questions after the course, but if you get stuck on something and email your trainer they should (and nearly always do!) respond as quickly as their training schedule allows.

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