Using AI tools course manual

Here are the chapters included in this course manual (we use exactly the same manuals for our classroom and online AI (Artificial Intelligence) courses).

Click here to download a sample of the first two chapters of this Using AI tools manual, or review how to license our courseware.

Chapter 1 - BASIC PROMPT ENGINEERING▼

Section	Title	Subsections	Page
1.1	Introduction to Prompt Engineering		4
1.2	Context		5
1.3	Outputs		6
1.4	Audience		6
1.5	Roles		8
1.6	Style		8
1.7	Examples		10
1.8	Putting Everything Together	Example 1 – Planning a Holiday Example 2 – Persuading a Friend to Wear a Cycle Helmet Example 3 – Suggesting Recipes	11

Chapter 2 - PUTTING THE CHAT IN CHATGPT▼

Section	Title	Subsections	Page
2.1	Repeating Questions		14
2.2	Pausing Conversations		15
2.3	Expanding on Answers	Drilling Down Citing Sources	16
2.4	ChatGPT Memory		18
2.5	Requesting a Q&A Session		19

Chapter 3 - INPUTS AND OUTPUTS▼

Section	Title	Subsections	Page
3.1	Using Different Inputs	Attaching Files Images as Inputs PDF Files as Inputs Microsoft 365 Files Other File Types Voice Inputs	20
3.2	Specifying Different Outputs	Text-Based Output Tables Images Emails, Limericks, Poems and Haikus JSON and HTML Generating Code Generating Audio Excel Spreadsheets and Word Documents PowerPoint Presentations Creating Charts Organograms Word Clouds	24

Chapter 4 - HOW AI WORKS AND ITS LIMITATIONS▼

Section	Title	Subsections	Page
4.1	An Overview of an AI Query		34
4.2	Tokenisation	Showing the Division of Text into Tokens Showing the Numbers for Tokens	35
4.3	Embedding		36
4.4	Large Language Models (LLMs)	Building an LLM Understanding how LLMs Work	37
4.5	Limitations of AI Tools	1 – The Size of the Context Window 2 – How Good is the Underlying LLM? 3 – Data Integrity 4 – Hallucination	38

Chapter 5 - CHOOSING AN AI TOOL▼

Section	Title	Subsections	Page
5.1	The Tools Available	The 4 Main Tools to Consider Other Leading AI Tools Versions and Payments Plans	41
5.2	Comparing the Tools		43

Chapter 6 - COPILOT FOR 365▼

Section	Title	Subsections	Page
6.1	Introducing Copilot for 365	Versions of Copilot Tentative Recommendation	44
6.2	Copilot 365 within Outlook		45
6.3	Copilot and Teams	Summarising Chats Scheduling Meetings	46
6.4	Copilot and Word		47
6.5	Copilot and Excel		48

Chapter 7 - IMPROVING YOUR QUESTIONS▼

Section	Title	Subsections	Page
7.1	Creating a Default Prompt Style		49
7.2	Adding Placeholders for Instructions	Example – Laying out a Recipe Example – Formatting a Cast List	50
7.3	Placeholders as Parameters (Variables)	The Need for Variables Creating Single Variables Creating Multiple Variables	51
7.4	Case Studies / Examples	Case Study 1: Generating Blog Ideas Case Study 2: Writing an Email	53
7.5	Missing Variable Values	Providing Default Values for Variables	55
7.6	Prompt Templates		56
7.7	Prompt Refinement	Suggested Meta-Prompt 1 Suggested Meta-Prompt 2	57

Chapter 8 - IMPROVING YOUR ANSWERS▼

Section	Title	Subsections	Page
8.1	Chain of Thought Prompting		59
8.2	One-Shot vs Few-Shot	One Shot Prompts Few Shot Prompts	60
8.3	Recursive Criticism and Improvement (RCI)		61
8.4	Self-Refinement		62
8.5	Tweaking Temperature	What Temperature Is The Range of Temperatures Examples of Different Temperatures	63
8.6	Top P Sampling		65

Chapter 9 - USING AI TOOLS AT HOME▼

Section	Title	Subsections	Page
9.1	Holiday Planning	Deciding on a Destination Drilling Down into One Option Drilling Down Further Translating Reviews	66
9.2	Choosing what to Watch	Providing a Briefing Film Recommendations	69
9.3	Choosing a Book	Step 1 – Rating Existing Books Step 2 - Getting Recommendations Step 3 – Comparing Results	71
9.4	Life Planning	Planning for Goals Talking through Ideas Practising Interviews	74
9.5	Fun Things	Adding Jokes Creating a Quiz Creating Art in Different Styles Create a Travel Bingo Card	76

Chapter 10 - GENERATING IMAGES▼

Section	Title	Subsections	Page
10.1	Text to Image		79
10.2	Choosing a Tool		80
10.3	Choosing Art Styles	Choosing the Medium Choosing the Material Photographic Styles Lighting Colours and Palette	81
10.4	Image Settings	Aspect Ratio Seeing the Underlying Prompt	84
10.5	Inpainting	Inpainting in Copilot and ChatGPT Inpainting in Midjourney	85

If you book a place on one of our courses you will automatically get access to the relevant courseware manual online, and also have the option to receive a paper copy of it.

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