AI Basics: ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini

AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini can draft emails, explain hard topics, summarize long documents and help you think through decisions. But most people only scratch the surface, or give up after a few disappointing answers. This free course shows you how these tools actually work, how to set them up, and how to get genuinely useful results from your very first conversation.

You will try each of the “big three” assistants side by side, learn what each one is commonly good at, and build the habits that keep you safe: checking facts, protecting private information and knowing when not to use AI at all.

What you will learn

• What AI chat assistants are, how they produce answers, and where they fall short
• How to create accounts and find the settings that matter (history, memory and data controls)
• A simple method for writing requests that get useful answers the first time
• Practical, everyday uses for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini
• How to spot made-up facts and verify anything important
• What information you should never paste into an AI tool
• How to choose the right assistant for a given job

Who this course is for

• Complete beginners who have never used an AI assistant, or tried once and were not impressed
• Busy professionals, parents, students and retirees who want to save time on everyday tasks
• Anyone who wants a calm, hype-free foundation before moving on to the advanced tracks

No technical background is needed. Every lesson ends with a short practice task and a quiz, and you earn a certificate when you finish.