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Understand AI

Go from AI user to someone who understands what is happening under the hood. Learn what AI is, how large language models actually work, how to get great results from them, and how to use them responsibly. No coding required.

6 courses~12h total100% free, certificate included with every course

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Courses in this roadmap

  1. Step 1Beginner

    AI Essentials: Understanding AI in 2026

    Master the fundamentals of artificial intelligence without the technical jargon. Understand what AI is, how it works, and how it's transforming our world. Perfect for complete beginners, business leaders, and anyone curious about the AI revolution. No coding required.

  2. Step 2Beginner40 min

    How LLMs Actually Work: Tokens, Parameters, and MoE Explained

    Go one level under the hood of ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Understand tokens, next-token prediction, context windows, model parameters, Mixture of Experts, and why AI models cost money to run. A short, no-code course for people who use AI every day.

  3. Step 3Intermediate45 min

    Transformers and Attention Explained: The Engine Inside Every LLM

    A short, no-code, no-math explainer of the attention mechanism that powers ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Understand query, key, and value, why models use many attention heads, how word order is encoded, and why transformers read your whole prompt at once.

  4. Step 4Beginner~5h

    Prompt Engineering Course: Master AI Prompts with Hands-On Practice

    Master prompt engineering through hands-on exercises. Learn prompt structure, few-shot learning, chain-of-thought reasoning, and advanced techniques with instant feedback. Build real-world prompts for code generation, content writing, and data analysis.

  5. Step 5Intermediate~2h

    Advanced Prompt Engineering: Evaluation, Meta-Prompting & Structured Outputs

    Move beyond writing prompts to engineering them. Build evals and rubrics to measure prompt quality objectively, use AI to write and refine your prompts, get reliable structured outputs, and run optimization loops that cut variance, cost, and latency.

  6. Step 6Beginner~3h

    AI Ethics & Responsible AI

    Learn the principles, practices, and skills to use AI responsibly. Explore bias, fairness, privacy, transparency, hallucinations, deepfakes, and the EU AI Act through hands-on exercises with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Perfect for university students and early-career learners. No coding required, and you earn a free certificate to add to your LinkedIn and resume.