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Using AI Tools

Two days (09:30 to 16:30 UK time each day)

This course is available in the following formats (all prices exclude VAT):

 

You can book a place on this course either online through this website, by phone, by email or by filling in our enquiry form.

There aren't any particular things you need to know to attend this course, although if you don't use a computer on a day-to-day basis you won't get much out of the two days!

Course schedule

Here are our next few Using AI tools course dates:

Dates Times Venue Price (excl. VAT)
15-16 Jan 09:30-16:30 Online £825 Book
03-04 Feb 09:30-16:30 Manchester £995 Book
17-18 Feb 09:30-16:30 Online £825 Book
25-26 Feb 09:30-16:30 London £1,350 Book
03-04 Mar 09:30-16:30 Manchester £995 Book
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Got a handful of like-minded people in your organisation? You could consider booking your own customised onsite course, whereby you get to pick the dates and venue!

Course Contents - PDF

Using AI tools training course contents

There are two ways you can try to cope with the onslaught of AI tools which are transforming the world's workplaces:

  1. Ignore anything to do with AI and hope the tools will all go away (the most tempting strategy).

  2. Learn to use AI as efficiently as possible, so that you can embrace it rather than fear it.

This two-day course (unsurprisingly) shows you how to follow the second path. It includes topics such as how to write a good prompt, how to work with files and images, the costs, strengths and weaknesses of the different tools available ... and much, much more. After writing this course we've started using AI tools as part of almost everything we do in the office, and look forward to sharing this enthusiasm and knowledge with you so that you (and your team?) can become more productive too.

The contents of this course are as follows:

Basic prompt engineering

  • Giving context
  • Roles, styles and audience
  • Output formats
  • Giving examples

Chatting

  • Repeating questions
  • Pausing chats
  • Expanding on answers
  • Requesting Q&A sessions

Inputs and outputs

  • Attaching files
  • Bullet points and tables
  • Creating files
  • The many other output formats

Translating

  • Translating human languages
  • Translating coding languages

Choosing an AI tool

  • Common tools available
  • Comparing the tools

Copilot for 365

  • What Copilot 365 does
  • Why not to use it

How AI works

  • Tokenisation
  • Embedding
  • Why you will never understand LLMs
  • Limitations of AI tools

Variables and placeholders

  • Placeholders for instructions
  • Placeholders as variables
  • Refining your prompts
  • Prompt templates

Ways to improve answers

  • Chain of thought prompts
  • One-shot and few-shot
  • Recursive criticism and self-refinement
  • Temperature and Top P sampling

Generating images

  • The main tools compared
  • Generating images
  • Choosing art styles

Web pages (HTML and CSS)

  • Mocking up web pages
  • Creating framework websites
  • Generating HTML and CSS
  • Adding JavaScript events

Pair programming

  • Comparing AI tools and languages
  • Frequent coding tasks

VBA macros

  • Setting up for VBA
  • Creating macros
  • Keeping code simple
  • Debugging

Python coding   if time

  • Creating Python programs
  • Refactoring (global edits)
  • Debugging
  • Getting module advice

SQL queries   if time

  • Blind querying
  • Passing database information
  • Formatting and refactoring
  • Optimising queries

OpenAI API overview   if time

  • Accounts and projects
  • The API playground
  • Prompting using Python
  • Examples (moderation, images, speech)

Custom GPTs

  • Creating custom GPTs
  • Setting a builder profile
  • Conversation starters
  • Saving and revising

A custom GPT case study

  • Deciding on your aim
  • Building the GPT
  • Reviewing the results

Working with ChatGPT

  • Managing chats
  • Archiving and deleting

Using AI tools at home

  • Holiday planning
  • Choosing what to watch
  • Life planning
  • Fun things
Please see further up this page for what you should know beforehand (if anything) in order to attend this course.

Why Choose Us?

Here are some reasons to choose Wise Owl courses:

In addition, here are some benefits unique to classroom training:

And some benefits specific to online training:

  • Courseware manual posted to you in advance
  • Free half-hour pre-course check-up included
  • Our clever system means you can use our laptops (and we can see them)

What other people have said

Our thanks to everyone who agreed to share their thoughts. All of the following reviews are from the last 3 calendar years:

"A really great teacher."

Orla Emberson (Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG))

"Very good training session, the trainer went the extra mile to make sure I took the maximum potential from the course. Highly recommend."

Christopher Parratt (Network Plus)

"The course content was great. Despite having a fair bit of practice in SQL I learnt a lot about how the language actually works, as well as very useful shortcuts and new syntax. A great teacher, very knowledgeable of the subject and seems to genuinely enjoy delivering the session - possibly the best work training I've attended! "

Jamie Yeo (Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG))

"Excellent all round, it was really useful to have the brief connection check in advance so that we could get on with it on the day. "

Becca Perry (WQE College (Wyggeston and QE))

"The course was really well paced. The trainer made sure we understood the basics before continuing."

Megan Roberts (Southbank Centre)

There are lots more where these came from (or just refresh this page to change the quotes shown).

How our training courses work

Below are some notes on how Wise Owl courses work, to help you decide whether they're for you or not.

What you'll need

If you book on a classroom course, the only thing you need to bring to the course is ... yourself! We even provide a notepad and a suprisingly nice pen for you to take notes with.

For online training you'll need two things:

  1. A good internet connection (otherwise you'll have a frustrating time); and
  2. A second screen (a requirement, not a nice-to-have!)

You can see full details of our online course requirements here.

When you book a place

If you book a place on one of our courses:

  • For classroom courses we will send out a joining email. That's it!
  • For online courses we will get in touch to organise a half-hour pre-course check to iron out any connection problems before the course (rather than during it).

Whatever type of course you book, we will also send you out a reminder a few days before the course is due to take place - not that (we hope) you'll have forgotten!

What you won't need

For classroom training, you won't need a computer - we (obviously) will provide that. However, you're welcome to use your own laptop if you prefer, providing that you have the correct software installed.

For online training you will need a computer, but you won't need to have any software installed.  This is because you'll use Windows Remote Desktop to connect to our computers, and these will have all of the necessary files and software installed.

The start of the course

For online courses you will be able to join up to half an hour before the course begins. This will give you time to:

  • familiarise yourself with the set-up;
  • meet your trainer; and
  • get to know the other delegates!

For classroom training it's always nice if people arrive a bit early too, to give people time to meet each other (and drink coffee).

You'll be given a full colour courseware manual, an exercise booklet to go with the course and a USB stick for taking course files away (we'll post all this to you for online courses).

After the course

After the course finishes you'll receive a digital certificate proving your attendance (we will gladly send a paper copy on request also).

We don't have any formal arrangement for answering questions after the course, but if you get stuck on something and email your trainer they should (and nearly always do!) respond as quickly as their training schedule allows.

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