AI Essentials: A Beginner’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence & Generative Tech

Course Description:

🚀 Step into the world of AI – the smart way!
This 45-day live online course is designed for absolute beginners who want to explore the exciting world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI – with no heavy coding or technical jargon!

🔍 What You’ll Learn:
✅ What is AI & Machine Learning? 🤔
✅ How Neural Networks think like humans 🧠
✅ ChatGPT & DALL·E – Create with GenAI 💬🎨
✅ Cool real-life AI applications around us 🌍
✅ Hands-on with tools like Google Colab 🛠️
✅ Simple Python basics for AI (no stress!) 🐍
✅ AI ethics, bias, and the future of tech ⚖️🔮
✅ Final mini-project + certification 🎓

📚 Includes:
📁 Interactive slides & notes
💬 Q&A support
💡 Fun practice projects
🎓 Certificate of Completion

📅 Duration: 45 Days | 💻 Mode: Remote (Live via Screen Sharing)

👉 Perfect for students, beginners, and non-tech learners who want to stay ahead of the curve and explore tomorrow’s technology, today!

🌟 No experience needed – just curiosity!

Course Curriculum:

🔹 Week 1: Foundations of AI & Machine Learning

• Day 1-2: What is AI? Types of AI (Narrow, General, Super AI)

• Day 3-4: Basics of Machine Learning (ML) – Supervised vs Unsupervised

• Day 5: Use cases of AI in daily life (health, games, transport, etc.)

Activity: AI Spotting Game – Identify AI around you

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🔹 Week 2: Neural Networks – Simple & Visual

• Day 6-7: What are neural networks? Understanding with analogies

• Day 8: Input, Hidden, Output Layers – no math, just logic

• Day 9: How a neural network “learns”

• Day 10: Tools demo – Google Teachable Machine (visual and easy)

Hands-on: Build your own image classifier with Teachable Machine

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🔹 Week 3: Introduction to NLP (Natural Language Processing)

• Day 11-12: What is NLP? How machines understand language

• Day 13-14: Fun with chatbots and auto-correct

• Day 15: Try ChatGPT – writing poems, stories, answering questions

Hands-on: Prompting activities with ChatGPT
Tool: ChatGPT Playground or OpenAI site

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🔹 Week 4: Generative AI in Action

• Day 16-17: What is Generative AI? How is it different from traditional AI?

• Day 18-19: DALL·E – Text-to-image generation

• Day 20: Overview of Midjourney, RunwayML (Just demo, not practice)

Activity: Generate an image using DALL·E from a fun prompt

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🔹 Week 5: Real-life Applications of AI

• Day 21-22: AI in healthcare, finance, education, entertainment

• Day 23: AI and You – How can AI help you personally

• Day 24-25: AI in schools and learning – smart tutoring systems

Project Discussion: AI Use Case Diary (keep a log of where AI shows up in your day)

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🔹 Week 6: Ethics, Biases, and the Future of AI

• Day 26-27: What is AI bias? Examples of unfair decisions

• Day 28: Why ethics matter in AI

• Day 29-30: What does the future of AI look like? Careers and possibilities

Discussion: Should AI be allowed to grade students?

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🔹 Week 7: Hands-On & Tools

• Day 31-32: Using Google Colab – writing your first Python cell

• Day 33-34: Intro to basic Python logic (print, input, if/else)

• Day 35: Fun with AI code notebooks (already prepared for drag-drop use)

Hands-on Project: Modify a simple Python chatbot script in Colab
(Only minimal coding)

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🔹 Week 8: Wrap-up & Final Assessment

• Day 36-38: Final project work

• Day 39-40: Project presentations (optional live or video)

• Day 41-42: Feedback + Recap games (Kahoot quiz, leaderboard)

• Day 43-45: Certification review, Q&A support, closure