AI Courses: Understanding, Using, and Effectively Deploying Artificial Intelligence

Four AI Courses for a Practical Start

Target Audience: Families, freelancers, businesses, associations, creatives, and developers – no empty buzzwords, just real-world application.

LLMs – More Than Just a Better Chat

Large Language Models (LLMs) understand and generate language – often including program code. While they function like chatbots, they are also a text tool, research aid, learning partner, programming assistant, and organizer all in one.

Common Uses

• Improve texts and emails, prepare blog posts, product descriptions
• Technical questions, WordPress, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, databases
• Translation, brainstorming, keywords, debugging, and explanations

Why LLMs Are More Than Just a Better Google Search

A search engine provides links. An LLM provides answers, explanations, and solutions – you can ask follow-up questions, request simplifications, or refine step-by-step. It creates a dialogue, not just a list of results.

Important: AI is not infallible. Always verify information concerning legal matters, medicine, taxes, security, or business decisions. A good workflow = ask, verify, refine, apply.

Why Do Incorrect Answers Occur?

LLMs calculate probable word sequences – they don't automatically "know" if a statement is true. If information is missing or if the training data and query are unclear, a convincing-sounding but incorrect answer can be generated.

In the course, you will learn how to maintain control through better prompts, clear tasks, source verification, follow-up questions, roles, constraints, and plausibility checks.

How Detailed Should a Prompt Be?

A prompt doesn't have to be long – but it must be clear. For simple tasks, a single sentence is often enough. For important results, context, objective, target audience, style, and format are helpful.

When Is a Chatbot Sufficient – When Do You Need an API?

How much does AI cost?

A chat subscription is predictable. APIs often charge by tokens (text units) – the longer the input and response, and the more powerful the model, the higher the costs can be.

Where is my data stored?

This depends on the provider, plan, and technical implementation. Free chat, business plan, enterprise, API, and a local model are different scenarios.

For customer data, contracts, internal documents, or trade secrets: carefully choose the provider, data privacy settings, and, if applicable, a local or corporate solution.

Local LLMs, Corporate LLMs, and RAG

AI Assistants and Phone Assistants

Systems can listen, speak, and be integrated – consisting of speech recognition, LLM, data source, speech output, and clear rules for handover and data privacy.

Overview of Popular Systems

The course is not about a single „best“ tool, but about choosing the right tool for the task.

Who is this course for?

• Private & Family: Writing, learning, researching, planning, creative work
• Businesses: Acceleration, data privacy, initial automation, meaningful processes
• Development: Code, APIs, WordPress, WebApps, Prototyping

Course Goal

At the end, you won't have a vague understanding like "AI can write texts." You will understand: What can AI do? What can it not do? Which tool for what purpose? How do you write better prompts? When to use an API or a local solution? How do you protect data?

We share practical knowledge from text work, web development, WordPress, automation, AI music, image generation, SEO, and our own projects – parts of our websites and plugins were also created with AI support.