AI COURSE

A free AI literacy course to understand tools, limitations, risks, and concrete uses.

The AI Course is a free path, written chapter by chapter, to build a solid understanding of contemporary artificial intelligence.

No technical skills required. The goal is to help you distinguish tools, promises, limitations, real risks, and sensible use cases.

List of chapters

#0Prologue

Prologue to the course Understanding AI: why you should know about artificial intelligence and how to use it with awareness.

#1Levels of awareness in LLM use

Five levels of awareness in AI use: from naive to expert use, what you need to know to level up.

#2What is AI

What artificial intelligence is: from deterministic systems to machine learning, from deep learning to LLMs, a map to orient yourself.

#3A minimal glossary and a comparison of LLMs

The fundamental AI terms explained clearly, plus an up-to-date comparison of the main frontier LLMs.

#4Do LLMs have a personality?

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Mistral: styles, strengths, and flaws of the main LLMs, told with a touch of irony.

#5How an LLM is built and what it's good at

How a neural network works, what training is, and what LLMs are really good at: from language to code, from classification to tools.

#6Interface of an LLM

The ChatGPT interface explained item by item: every button, every function, what it's for and when to use it.

#7Chats, their limits and how to overcome them

The 15 most common limits of chats with LLMs, explained one by one, with practical tips for handling them.