The first module of Practical:AI Foundations is available to everyone to help kickstart your AI capability.
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Practical Skills
Access Intro & Theory for free
Kickstart your AI capability
Access the first module of Practical:AI Foundations for free.
At PracticalAI, we compare AI to the humble spreadsheets every business uses – it’s an incredibly powerful tool, but 20 years ago without some basic skills and training it might have been mistaken for just a silly gimmick.
The truth is, just like the humble spreadsheet, AI will be a game-changer for every business and professional across all industries – if you know how to use it.
- Access the first module of Practical:AI Foundations for free.
- Share with your team to quickly form a common understanding of the new capabilities and challenges that AI brings.
- Watch to the end for a preview of the rest of the Foundations workshop.
The full Foundations Workshop also contains modules on Prompt Engineering, Image Generation and a deep dive on Risks and practical use cases.
The Missing Middle
Across all the workshops we’ve run the consistent feedback is that the current pace of change in AI has opened a gap between the traditional resources:
- Higher education is looking after the long term adoption of AI with data science and technical skills.
- The tech vendors are focusing on enterprise adoption, supporting developers with API documentation and executives with sales pitches and free courses.
- Social media is offering breathless “One weird trick” and hype videos, often with advice that can’t be replicated (or shouldn’t be).
The gap is in taking AI seriously as a individual productivity tool, not as a silly toy or some existential terror.
This is the “missing middle” that Practical:AI focuses on, practical skills grounded in hands-on experience of using LLMs like ChatGPT in a workplace setting.
Our Approach
Level Set
Get everyone on same page
The first step always needs to be creating a common understanding of AI as no further adoption can happen if half the team thinks AI is a toy and the other half thinks it’s a terror.
Practical:AI has made the Intro & Theory module of Foundations free so everyone in your team can benefit today.
Upskill
Raise the bar
Once everyone is on the same level we focus on developing practical skills with prompt engineering for text models and composition techniques for image generation.
From that foundation we can then teach a suite of everyday use cases covering editorial techniques, expert advisor roles and content generation (that avoids AI Slop and hallucination).
Maintain
AI is a moving target
With AI the biggest challenge is the pace of change which is why Practical:AI offers ongoing version updates to keep pace with the latest AI has to offer.
The Foundations workshop is updated weekly and all students get access to 3 months of Practical:AI User Group offering:
- New use cases and prompt patterns.
- Weekly office hour sessions where students can drop in with problems.
- Access to exercises and recordings of the workshop modules.
Testimonials
Nicole Stirling
CEO
“…I knew we should be getting so much more value from AI (for our clients, and for our agency) but despite my team dabbling, spending time reading articles and watching videos about it we didn’t see it translating into outcomes.
Practical:AI provided us with clear guidance on how we can achieve commercial value from AI. The day after the workshop the team immediately started making use of what they were taught and now it’s common behaviour to head to ChatGPT, and not Google for our research, design, copywriting and anything that requires analysis.” - Nicole Stirling
Paul Armstrong
Independent Consultant
“…a fantastic learning experience.
This course would be valuable to everyone, especially public servants who may have recently lost their jobs, and public services trying to figure out how to replace what their people used to do.
This is not a moment to look back. This course enables the motivated to not only look forward but practice how to start moving forward.” - Paul Armstrong
Dave Knight
B2B Sales coach
“Such a valuable course. A great day with a fabulous group.
If you are a business owner, founder, sole trader, this course will help you leverage the power of AI. Importantly you will learn its (current) limits and get actionable insights in how to get the best from this emerging tech.
Much more than AI buzz… this is substantial content and tools!” - Dave Knight
Start Today!
Access Intro & Theory for free
Kickstart your AI capability
Access the first module of Practical:AI Foundations for free.
The first module of Practical:AI Foundations is available to everyone to help kickstart your AI capability.
- AI Theory (That Won’t Put You to Sleep): Understand how AI ticks under the hood without needing a math PhD.
- Extracting real business value: AI is an endless goldmine of value, learn how to ‘mine’ it safely.
- Risks and challenges: Learn about what is meant when we say AI “hallucinates”, the bias risks and how they can be managed.
- The new frontier: AI has upended the status quo to the extent everything will need to be reevaluated, learn to separate the low-hanging fruit from the AI slop.