Learning & Getting started with GenAI šŸ¤–

Lesly Zerna
3 min readJan 26, 2024

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Hello world! This blog is meant to give you some guidance and insights on how to start your journey whem learning about Generative AI šŸ¤–

Firstly, letā€™s ask our friends chatbots, What is Generative AI and how to get started in learning this?

ChatGPT:

Full answer here: https://chat.openai.com/share/c2bb994b-f4ec-40d5-a10f-dc0d3103f094

BARD:

Full answer: https://g.co/bard/share/4c32a51eb66f

Ok, letā€™s explore, as very first course, I would go on:

  1. Generative AI for Everyone (link)

Get the basics on what GenAI is, how it works, how it is different from ā€œthe AI we knowā€, getting started with GenAI projects and more! You can audit the course, however if you want a certificate you can pay for the course or subscription to Coursera (or ask for financial aid).

2. Generative AI on SaturdaysAI (link)

Free and self pace. Learn what is Generative AI, ā€œprompt engineeringā€, and what is ā€œMultimodalā€, including ā€œrecipes & tipsā€ to make it worthy.

3. Introduction to Generative AI Learning Path (link)

A set of different short courses, to learn about GenAI, LLMs, responsible AI and more! (it keeps updating frequently). Free access for most theoretical courses and when you finish a course, you can take a short quiz and get a badge for completion! (sharable for linkedin!)

4. A set of practical GenAI courses(link)

DeepLearning.AI has launched in April 2023, the format of short courses (~ 1 hour long) in collaboration with big techs and founders of best GenAI tools and applications, for example OpenAI, LangChain, and more!

Conference in October 2023, of Dr. Andrew Ng (Full video: https://youtu.be/KDBq0GqKpqA?si=ZT8dSVDiWBtDig0F)

If you want to get hands on, definetly these are the best ways to find a path, get started with ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers, explore the power and a friendly intro to Hugging Face with the course: Building Generative AI Applications with Gradio, learn to use LLM for pair programming along Google with the course: Pair Programming with a Large Language Model, also learn to evaluate LLM, how to set up LLMOps and more šŸŽ‰šŸŽ‰šŸŽ‰

All the suggestions above to get started šŸ¤“ then, you will discover how fascinating is the GenAI world and so many things you can build/test with it (beyond using chatgpt or bard šŸ˜„)

Extra:

  • Interested in Project Management? check this: Generative AI Overview for Project Managers (link), short free course with shareable certificate.
  • Empower everyone with Generative AI skills (link) in Coursera
  • IA Generativa ā€” Uma introduĆ§Ć£o (link)

Thanks for reading until here, donā€™t forget to subscribe and explore more of my content :)

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Lesly Zerna
Lesly Zerna

Written by Lesly Zerna

šŸ¤– enthusiastic explorer | AI + Education | startups