Using AI, in ten one-minute videos
Watch the whole series in order
This player plays straight from the YouTube playlist, so it always shows the series as it stands, new videos included. Each video is about a minute long and matches one module of the free Using AI course.
Prefer to pick one? Every video is listed below with the question it answers. Press a picture to play it here, or open the written lesson for the full version with exercises.
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01
How Does an AI Chatbot Actually Work?
An AI chatbot writes what is likely to come next, not what has been checked.
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02
How Do You Write a Good AI Prompt?
An AI knows a lot about the world and nothing about your situation, so a vague request gets a generic answer.
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03
How Do You Know If an AI Answer Is Correct?
An AI answer sounds equally sure whether it is right or wrong.
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04
Is It Safe to Share Personal Information With AI?
A chat box is really a form you send to a company, and what happens to it depends on the product and your settings.
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05
Does Using AI to Study Make You Learn Less?
Studying with AI can leave you unable to do the work without it: in one study, students who practiced math with a plain chat assistant scored lower on a test taken without it.
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06
How Do You Make AI Writing Sound Like You?
AI can help you get unstuck, tighten and check your writing, but a draft it writes tends to sound like everyone else's and can include things that never happened to you.
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How Can You Tell If an AI Citation Is Real?
AI assistants can produce references that look real but do not exist.
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08
How Do You Know If an AI Formula Is Right?
AI can write spreadsheet formulas for you, but a formula that looks right can still be wrong on the row that matters.
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09
How Can You Tell If an Image Is AI-Generated?
You often can't tell an AI-made image from a real one by looking.
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10
Is It Okay to Use AI at Work?
Using AI at work is often fine for the right tasks, if your employer allows it.
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