AI: Advancing Your Skills

Unlock the full potential of AI tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney in this immersive 9-hour course designed for adult learners. Building on your foundational skills, this course will guide you through intermediate to advanced prompting techniques, enabling you to enhance productivity, creativity, and effectiveness in both personal and business contexts. Explore how to customize ChatGPT interactions, utilize the playground, and gain a solid understanding of APIs to create no-code and low-code applications. Through engaging discussions and hands-on projects, you'll develop practical skills and innovative solutions to automate work processes and bring your creative ideas to life.

To get the most out of this course, students need to bring a laptop computer to class and have a paid subscription to ChatGPT (The "Personal Plus" level at $20/month is sufficient.) Class meets every Tuesday for six weeks starting Oct. 15 (2024) from 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.

Ariel Strong is a techie who loves to introduce nontechnical folks to all of the fun and creative possibilities that breakthroughs in computing have made possible in recent years. She has worked in the field of software engineering since the early 1990s, and for the last seven years, has been specifically focused on Data Analytics and AI. Ariel owns two businesses that utilize AI: Flagstaff Design and Marketing, a web services company, and FireFlight, a fire prevention and mitigation company. FireFlight uses advanced drone imaging techniques in combination with AI to provide home and business owners with straightforward, site-specific action plans to protect their health, safety, and property from the threats of wildfire.