Key Takeaways.
- OpenAI Academy is an online collection of tutorials, live webinars and other educational materials that inform users about OpenAI’s products and LLMs.
- One of the main goals of the Academy is for users to be able to fully understand the capabilities of these AI products in various sectors such as education, businesses, and everyday work.
- As AI advances rapidly, we may soon see artificial intelligence offered as professional courses by recognized universities.
OpenAI has launched the OpenAI Academy – a one-stop destination for you to learn everything about OpenAI LLM products, such as ChatGPT, Sora, Deep Research, and more. The portal provides extensive video demonstrations on using various features of these AI models and optimizing inputs to get the best results.
Here’s a quick look at what you can learn at the OpenAI Academy:
- ChatGPT On Campus: Intended for students, especially those in higher education. This includes tutorials for researching and writing, managing your time effectively, designing resumes and preparing you for interviews.
- AI For K-12 Educators () : This module is designed for educators and focuses on the ways teachers and support staff can use AI tools to streamline operations at schools and improve communications. With detailed videos on lesson plans and student support, educators are able to improve education from the ground up. It also includes detailed instructions on how to use ChatGPT Edu, OpenAI’s specialized version of chatbots for educators. This module will assist you with prompt engineering and coding. It will also introduce you to ChatGPT Projects, ChatGPT Search as well as Deep Research.
- Sora Tutorials (19459057]: OpenAI’s own video generator, Sora. It can render video from text, images and video prompts. OpenAI Academy’s Sora tutorials will teach you how to create a storyboard and how to recut, blend and remix videos using the AI tool. OpenAI for Business: This module focuses on personalizing ChatGPT so that it is more relevant to you and your work. You can learn about ChatGPT’s Deep Research integration with GitHub and how to connect ChatGPT to Google Drive in order to tap into internal knowledge. You can also learn how to run multi-step work flows, and conduct extensive market research. OpenAI Academy also hosts live events and webinars.
These include pre-recorded videos, tutorials, and articles on ‘How-to’ . These sessions are extensive, ranging from an introduction to ChatGPT through to practical use cases in career development and education.
ChatGPT is a powerful tool that has many real-world applications in both business and education. The vast majority are unaware. The OpenAI Academy aims to eliminate the lack awareness around its products by demonstrating their capabilities.
The Art of Prompts.
The art of using AI is basically your ability to feed LLM models effective and appropriate prompts. The average person might ask for a simple prompt like ‘create an image of a child playing football‘.
But those who are familiar with the capabilities of AI will give more specific prompts such as: ‘Create a portrait HD image showing a six-year-old boy wearing a Chelsea shirt and shorts along with Nike boots, playing football on grassy ground.’ Keep the lighting close to what you see at sunset in August‘
Interestingly, both these images have been generated using the same model, i.e., ChatGPT, with the only difference being the prompt. This goes to show that people who have fully wrapped their heads around what AI can do will be able to use it to its full potential.
It’s worth noting that you can extrapolate this example to endless scenarios. For example, if you’re too lazy to read a book, you can simply ask ChatGPT to generate a mind map of the entire book. This will help you understand the text better and remember the book’s content for a long time. However, you must have professional AI training to do so.
Alternatively, ChatGPT can serve up some work emails or sort numerical data. However, experienced users can also use it for tasks like strategic planning, breaking down trends and competitions, finding new strategic leads and opportunities, and generating an actionable market strategy using accurate prompts.
AI Isn’t Just a Feature Anymore
Gone are the days when AI was just a new, cool feature for us to try. Using ChatGPT or Gemini to write a work email, complete an assignment, or generate an AI image are just the tip of the iceberg. Using AI tools now requires real skills and comes with a learning curve and even a curriculum.
If you give an average person a blank canvas and a paintbrush, he may draw a couple of houses, a river, the sun, and other basic elements. However, put the same canvas and paintbrush in the hands of a trained artist, and he’ll make you a masterpiece.
Today’s AI tools are essentially the canvas and the paintbrush. In the hands of the average user, it’s hardly anything more than a text or image generator. However, those aware of their potential can design entire business plans, write and run complex codes, and learn new things almost every day.
In its initial days, coding, too, was just a soft skill or an extracurricular activity. However, with time, coding has developed into a full-fledged education stream with postgraduate and PhD certifications.
Something similar might happen with AI as well. As these tools become more sophisticated, the need for a structured AI education will also rise. The day isn’t far when we might see recognized universities offering professional degrees in artificial intelligence, focusing not only on designing the systems but also harnessing the most out of AI.
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