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Using AI tools Course (2 days)

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Topics covered on this course

  • Basic prompt engineering

    Subtopics

    1. Giving context
    2. Roles, styles and audience
    3. Output formats
    4. Giving examples
  • Chatting

    Subtopics

    1. Repeating questions
    2. Pausing chats
    3. Expanding on answers
    4. Requesting Q&A sessions
  • Inputs and outputs

    Subtopics

    1. Attaching files
    2. Bullet points and tables
    3. Creating files
    4. The many other output formats
  • Translating

    Subtopics

    1. Translating human languages
    2. Translating coding languages
  • Choosing an AI tool

    Subtopics

    1. Common tools available
    2. Comparing the tools
  • Copilot for 365

    Subtopics

    1. What Copilot 365 does
    2. Why not to use it
  • How AI works

    Subtopics

    1. Tokenisation
    2. Embedding
    3. Why you will never understand LLMs
    4. Limitations of AI tools
  • Variables and placeholders

    Subtopics

    1. Placeholders for instructions
    2. Placeholders as variables
    3. Refining your prompts
    4. Prompt templates
  • Ways to improve answers

    Subtopics

    1. Chain of thought prompts
    2. One-shot and few-shot
    3. Recursive criticism and self-refinement
    4. Temperature and Top P sampling
  • Generating images

    Subtopics

    1. The main tools compared
    2. Generating images
    3. Choosing art styles
  • Web pages (HTML and CSS)

    Subtopics

    1. Mocking up web pages
    2. Creating framework websites
    3. Generating HTML and CSS
    4. Adding JavaScript events
  • Pair programming

    Subtopics

    1. Comparing AI tools and languages
    2. Frequent coding tasks
  • VBA macros

    Subtopics

    1. Setting up for VBA
    2. Creating macros
    3. Keeping code simple
    4. Debugging
  • Python coding  

    Subtopics

    1. Creating Python programs
    2. Refactoring (global edits)
    3. Debugging
    4. Getting module advice
  • SQL queries  

    Subtopics

    1. Blind querying
    2. Passing database information
    3. Formatting and refactoring
    4. Optimising queries
  • OpenAI API overview  

    Subtopics

    1. Accounts and projects
    2. The API playground
    3. Prompting using Python
    4. Examples (moderation, images, speech)
  • Custom GPTs

    Subtopics

    1. Creating custom GPTs
    2. Setting a builder profile
    3. Conversation starters
    4. Saving and revising
  • A custom GPT case study

    Subtopics

    1. Deciding on your aim
    2. Building the GPT
    3. Reviewing the results
  • Working with ChatGPT

    Subtopics

    1. Managing chats
    2. Archiving and deleting
  • Using AI tools at home

    Subtopics

    1. Holiday planning
    2. Choosing what to watch
    3. Life planning
    4. Fun things

Topics marked will be covered if time allows.

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Using Artificial Intelligence tools course dates

The table below lists the Using Artificial Intelligence tools courses that we currently have scheduled (click on one of the tabs to filter the list).

Date(s) Date(s) Duration Venue Price Times  
Mon/Tue 17-18 February 2025 17-18 Feb 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 25-26 February 2025 25-26 Feb 2 days London £1,425.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 03-04 March 2025 03-04 Mar 2 days Manchester £1,050.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 20-21 March 2025 20-21 Mar 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 03-04 April 2025 03-04 Apr 2 days Manchester £1,050.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 08-09 April 2025 08-09 Apr 2 days London £1,425.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 22-23 April 2025 22-23 Apr 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 19-20 June 2025 19-20 Jun 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 24-25 June 2025 24-25 Jun 2 days London £1,425.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 03-04 July 2025 03-04 Jul 2 days Manchester £1,050.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 22-23 July 2025 22-23 Jul 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 21-22 August 2025 21-22 Aug 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 01-02 September 2025 01-02 Sep 2 days Manchester £1,050.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 18-19 September 2025 18-19 Sep 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 23-24 September 2025 23-24 Sep 2 days London £1,425.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 02-03 October 2025 02-03 Oct 2 days Manchester £1,050.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 21-22 October 2025 21-22 Oct 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 21-22 October 2025 21-22 Oct 2 days London £1,425.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 03-04 November 2025 03-04 Nov 2 days Manchester £1,050.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 20-21 November 2025 20-21 Nov 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 25-26 November 2025 25-26 Nov 2 days London £1,425.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book

If you can't see the course you want listed above, don't despair! If you can muster 3 or 4 people together, it may well be worth organising an onsite course at your office (we'll provide and set up the computers), or else an online course tailored to your needs.

Date(s) Date(s) Duration Venue Price Times  
Tue/Wed 25-26 February 2025 25-26 Feb 2 days London £1,425.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 08-09 April 2025 08-09 Apr 2 days London £1,425.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 24-25 June 2025 24-25 Jun 2 days London £1,425.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 23-24 September 2025 23-24 Sep 2 days London £1,425.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 21-22 October 2025 21-22 Oct 2 days London £1,425.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 25-26 November 2025 25-26 Nov 2 days London £1,425.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book

If you can't see the course you want listed above, don't despair! If you can muster 3 or 4 people together, it may well be worth organising an onsite course at your office (we'll provide and set up the computers), or else an online course tailored to your needs.

Date(s) Date(s) Duration Venue Price Times  
Mon/Tue 03-04 March 2025 03-04 Mar 2 days Manchester £1,050.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 03-04 April 2025 03-04 Apr 2 days Manchester £1,050.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 03-04 July 2025 03-04 Jul 2 days Manchester £1,050.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 01-02 September 2025 01-02 Sep 2 days Manchester £1,050.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 02-03 October 2025 02-03 Oct 2 days Manchester £1,050.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 03-04 November 2025 03-04 Nov 2 days Manchester £1,050.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book

If you can't see the course you want listed above, don't despair! If you can muster 3 or 4 people together, it may well be worth organising an onsite course at your office (we'll provide and set up the computers), or else an online course tailored to your needs.

Date(s) Date(s) Duration Venue Price Times  
Mon/Tue 17-18 February 2025 17-18 Feb 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 20-21 March 2025 20-21 Mar 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 22-23 April 2025 22-23 Apr 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 19-20 June 2025 19-20 Jun 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 22-23 July 2025 22-23 Jul 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 21-22 August 2025 21-22 Aug 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 18-19 September 2025 18-19 Sep 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 21-22 October 2025 21-22 Oct 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 20-21 November 2025 20-21 Nov 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book

If you can't see the course you want listed above, don't despair! If you can muster 3 or 4 people together, it may well be worth organising an onsite course at your office (we'll provide and set up the computers), or else an online course tailored to your needs.

About half of our courses are created bespoke for a single organisation, and either delivered onsite (usually somewhere in the UK, but we're willing to travel!) or online. For onsite courses we will usually provide and set up the necessary computers free of charge.

There are four main reasons why you might want to book tailored training like this:

  1. If you have 3 or more people, organising custom training will probably be cheaper than booking people individually onto a scheduled course.
  2. You'll be able to choose the content of any training, and be able to pause it for discussions on how you'll use software internally, or ask to take digressions.
  3. You may not be able to travel to our venues, so it might be easier to ask us to travel to you.
  4. You may not be able to make the dates of our published scheduled courses, and want to be able to choose when your training takes place.

If you'd like a quote for how much a tailored course would cost please let us know what you'd like to achieve and we'll get back to you (normally within half a working day).

About this Using Artificial Intelligence tools course

Click on one of the tabs below to see the given information about the course.

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

  1. Ignore anything to do with AI and hope the tools will all go away (the most tempting strategy).

  2. 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.

Pre-requisites

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!

What you'll need to bring

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:

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

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

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 using our whizzy Wordsworth online training system, and these computers will have all of the necessary files and software installed.

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). We will also ask you whether you want to receive a printed copy of the course manual (and post this to you if you do).

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!

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.

FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions

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What other Artificial Intelligence courses can I take?▼

Here is a list of all of the Artificial Intelligence courses that we run:

Course name Days
Using AI tools (this course) 2 days
The OpenAI API (Python) 2 days

What courses do you have related to this one?▼

You might like to consider invesigating these related courses:

Related course Days Level
The OpenAI API (Python) 2 days Intermediate or advanced

What are your venues for your classroom Artificial Intelligence courses?▼

We run our scheduled classroom training courses in the following venues:

Venue Details
Artificial Intelligence training in London We run our courses in London from the LandMark offices in Bishopsgate, right in the middle of the City (and close to Liverpool Street mainline station).
Artificial Intelligence training in Manchester We run our courses in Manchester from the Holiday Inn business centre, which is a few minutes' walk from Piccadilly station.
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Manchester

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