Excellent 1h Beginner's Course for Getting Started with OpenAI and ChatGPT

Today, I would like to share a short course on #OpenAI and #ChatGPT that I personally found highly valuable.

This course, called "ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers" taught by Andrew Ng and Isa Fulford , has greatly enhanced my understanding of generative AI and helped me leverage large language models (#LLMs) to almost instantly build applications using OpenAI's API.

"ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers" covers important generative AI fundamentals such as:

- Summarizing: learning how to summarize user reviews or any text for brevity.

- Inferring: exploring tasks like sentiment classification and topic extraction.

- Transforming: delving into text translation, spelling and grammar correction.

- Expanding: automating tasks like writing emails.

Additionally, the course teaches two key principles for writing effective prompts and provides guidance on how to systematically engineer good prompts. You will also learn to build a custom #chatbot.

What sets this course apart for me are several factors:

1. Going beyond the hype: Unlike many press articles, this course enables you to take practical action with OpenAI. If you genuinely want to do something meaningful with OpenAI instead of just discussing it, this course is for you.

2. Condensed practical information: Despite its one-hour format, the course manages to deliver a wealth of practical knowledge, making it accessible even to those without extensive coding experience.

3. Straightforward examples and code: All the examples in the course are easy to understand, and the code is shared with the community in Jupyter Notebooks. You can quickly start tinkering with them on Google Colab without the need for extensive infrastructure setup.

4. Immediate results: The course prioritizes practical solutions over lengthy theoretical explanations (although theory has its merits). You'll be amazed at what you can achieve right away, without a steep learning curve. Experiencing instant success is incredibly motivating and can surpass your initial expectations.

5. Free and well-structured: The course is freely available and well-organized. Moreover, there are additional short courses in the same series that allow you to delve deeper and expand your knowledge, particularly "Building Systems with the ChatGPT API".

In my personal journey with generative #artificialintelligence, I discovered that this course was the most accessible and valuable starting point. It offered me a much more straightforward approach compared to sifting through news articles, GitHub projects, or YouTube videos.

I'm curious about your experiences with generative #AI. How did you get started, and what were your most valuable findings along the way?