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Claude and ChatGPT: an introduction

Claude and ChatGPT share many features; mostly the names and the buttons differ. The course puts them side by side, with real screenshots and recorded examples from both, and teaches how to think while you use them: what to hand over, how to say enough, how far to trust an answer. No account needed to follow it.

  • Beginner
  • About 3 to 4 hours
  • 12 sections
  • 40 lessons
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Course outline

  1. Section 1

    Two assistants, one question

    • About this course

      Lesson · 5 min

    • The two assistants

      Lesson · 8 min

    • Fast, balanced, strongest

      Lesson · 6 min

    • Strong here, weak there

      Lesson · 10 min

    • Looking back at this chapter

      Lesson · 3 min

  2. Section 2

    The first conversation

    • Starting a chat

      Lesson · 7 min

    • Giving the AI time to think

      Lesson · 7 min

    • Saying enough

      Lesson · 10 min

    • Which tricks still work?

      Lesson · 7 min

    • Looking back at this chapter

      Lesson · 3 min

  3. Section 3

    Files, pictures and voice

    • Giving the AI a file to read

      Lesson · 10 min

    • Words in a file can be instructions too

      Lesson · 8 min

    • Talking instead of typing

      Lesson · 6 min

    • Looking back at this chapter

      Lesson · 3 min

  4. Section 4

    Searching the web

    • When the AI searches, and when it doesn't

      Lesson · 8 min

    • Deep research

      Lesson · 10 min

    • Looking back at this chapter

      Lesson · 3 min

  5. Section 5

    Projects

    • A home for recurring work

      Lesson · 6 min

    • Writing a project's instructions

      Lesson · 8 min

    • Looking back at this chapter

      Lesson · 3 min

  6. Section 6

    Memory and personalisation

    • What the AI remembers about you

      Lesson · 7 min

    • A chat that isn't kept

      Lesson · 5 min

    • The agreeable mirror

      Lesson · 10 min

    • Looking back at this chapter

      Lesson · 3 min

  7. Section 7

    Making things

    • A document beside the chat

      Lesson · 5 min

    • The AI makes a file

      Lesson · 8 min

    • Pictures

      Lesson · 6 min

    • Looking back at this chapter

      Lesson · 3 min

  8. Section 8

    Learning with AI

    • Two ways to use AI for learning

      Lesson · 8 min

    • Learning modes

      Lesson · 10 min

    • Looking back at this chapter

      Lesson · 3 min

  9. Section 9

    When AI does the work

    • From answering to doing

      Lesson · 7 min

    • Connecting the AI to your apps

      Lesson · 10 min

    • Looking back at this chapter

      Lesson · 3 min

  10. Section 10

    Privacy and safety

    • Where your data goes

      Lesson · 8 min

    • Sharing and responsibility

      Lesson · 7 min

    • Looking back at this chapter

      Lesson · 3 min

  11. Section 11

    Capstone

    • One real task, two tools

      Lesson · 30 min

  12. Section 12

    Final exam

    • Final exam

      Quiz · 30 min

    • After the exam

      Lesson · 5 min