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About the Course

In the era of Generative AI, the demand for personalized and specialized Generative AI assistants is skyrocketing. Large language models like GPTs have demonstrated their remarkable capabilities, but what if you could harness their power to create custom AI assistants tailored to your specific needs? Welcome to the world of custom GPTs, where you can build intelligent systems that understand your domain, speak your language, and solve your unique challenges. This cutting-edge course will guide you through the exciting journey of creating and deploying custom GPTs that cater to diverse industries and applications. Imagine having a virtual assistant that can tackle complex legal document analysis, streamline supply chain logistics, or even assist in scientific research and hypothesis generation. The possibilities are endless! Throughout the course, you'll delve into the intricacies of building GPTs that can use your documents to answer questions, patterns to create amazing human and AI interaction, and methods for customizing the tone of your GPTs. You'll learn how to design and implement rigorous testing scenarios to ensure your AI assistant's accuracy, reliability, and human-like communication abilities. Prepare to be amazed as you explore real-world examples built around a GPT for Travel and Business Expense Management. The examples show how a GPT can help users book flights, hotels, and transportation while adhering to company policies and budgets. Additionally, the GPT can help streamline expense reporting and reimbursement processes, ensuring compliance and accuracy. Whether you're a business leader, entrepreneur, developer, or educator, this course will equip you with the skills to harness the transformative potential of custom GPTs. Unlock new realms of productivity, innovation, and personalized experiences by building AI assistants that truly understand and cater to your unique needs. Enroll now and join the forefront of AI revolution, where you'll learn to create intelligent systems that not only comprehend but also anticipate and exceed your expectations....

Top reviews

VS

Jun 6, 2024

Great course, provides a nice intuitive introduction on how to use ChatGPT without requiring any programming skills. Jules White is upbeat and enthusiastic in presenting his course materials.

SB

Jul 26, 2025

This course is overall good. However, we need to copy and paste our data from GPT, which does not seem like a good idea. It can instead be an MCQ-based test based course.

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By Kazimir K

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Aug 21, 2024

I recently completed the "OpenAI: Creating Your Own Custom AI Assistants" course on Coursera, which exceeded my expectations. The well-structured course offers a comprehensive guide to creating custom GPTs tailored to various needs. It covers everything with a strong practical focus, from foundational concepts to advanced customization. The real-world examples and case studies were beneficial, showing how AI assistants can be applied in diverse fields like education, culinary arts, and business management. What I found most valuable was the course's hands-on approach. The instructors made complex topics accessible, even those without deep AI expertise. The emphasis on designing rigorous testing scenarios ensures that the GPTs you create are accurate and reliable. By the end, I felt confident building AI assistants that meet specific industry challenges. I highly recommend this course to anyone interested in harnessing AI's potential for personalized solutions.

By Penelope V S

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May 5, 2024

Really, really njoyed this course. I have been creating custom GPT's on my own - self taught, but was getting frustrated with some of the outputs. I'm a try first thn learn the instructions type of person...This course has answered my questions! I am neurodivregent but Jules taught in a way that kept me engaged!!!

By Ta C L

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Sep 9, 2024

This course effectively covers custom GPT basics. Ideal for beginners, though more advanced topics with real-world examples and useful patterns. Recommended!!

By KEn R

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Aug 11, 2024

Jules White is an exceptional teacher in his expertise and clarity of presenting the material. Also his enthusiasm in contagious in the best possible way!

By D

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Dec 12, 2024

For people who don't use Computer.

By Athanasios K

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Aug 27, 2025

Excellent course to learn more about Chat GPT and building your custom GPTs. Knowledge that can be directly applied to the personal and work environment is transferred in a very efficient way through the course and the teacher. So far, for me this has been the best time investment among all Coursera courses completed. The other courses have been very good as well, but I would like to give some more credits to this one, when specifically thinking time investment, applications and benefits.

By Hung W K

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Sep 10, 2024

Previously, I don't know custom gpt could make some useful mini apps. Now, I know it can create random motivation quotes generator, reframe questions, translation assistant, translation quality checker, and more. It has introduce some useful patterns in his prompt engineering course that I missed. I hope to join that course soon for more complete sets of patterns. Highly recommend custom gpt course for those who are unaware of such possibilities and the patterns.

By Sari L

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Jul 13, 2024

This is one of the best course sets on the markets (I have attended many others as well). However, in each of the 3 courses, you should change the various examples to be about issues and questions that lawyers might actually face in their practice. - and not about irrelevant hypotheticals not related to law. That would make this series of courses the best in the market right now. The course about building custom GPTs was the best in this series.

By CMJ D S

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Jun 27, 2024

As a student, I found "OpenAI GPTs: Creating Your Own Custom AI Assistants" incredibly helpful and engaging! The course made complex concepts easy to understand and guided me through the process of building my own AI assistant. The hands-on projects were especially beneficial, allowing me to apply what I learned in a practical way. I highly recommend this course to anyone interested in AI and looking to create their own custom AI tools!

By Aromal R

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Dec 9, 2024

Quite straight forward and value creating. I have been using gpt since its launched and never realised the full power of it. This course I think is a good primer to prompt engineering and how to ethically use LLM in your organisation. I wouldn't say practically everything is covered but if you have been using LLMs and fiddling with various options this really takes your game to the next level.

By Nadejda K

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May 7, 2024

Dr Jules White engaging style kept me captivated throughout the course. I would highly recommend this course to anyone interested in learning about AI assistants and how to harness their potential. Whether you're a programmer or not, there's something valuable to gain from the practical skills taught in this course.

By Rick B

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Mar 24, 2025

Coursera has some really great courses, and great instructors. With that said Dr. White is undoubtably one of the best professors I have encountered over my learning career. He cares deeply about the subject matter and conveying that his students. I very highly recommend this class as well as his Prompt class.

By Maria V

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Aug 26, 2024

Just completed the "Making Your Own GPTs" class, and it was both enjoyable and creatively stimulating. The course offered a great balance of practical learning and innovative exercises. If you're looking to explore GPT technology in a way that's engaging and insightful, this class is highly recommended.

By Sudhir K

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Apr 27, 2024

Jules White is an excellent instructor who explains complex concepts with amazing clarity. In this course he builds momentum gradually introducing new concepts, making it easy even for beginners to understand how to create Custom GPTs. Glad I took this course. Highly recommended.

By Martins L

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Jul 7, 2025

In the earlier prompt engineering courses, I kept thinking about how to actually build Custom GPTs—and this one really hit a home run. Clear, practical, and immediately usable. I’ve already built one for my own needs, and it works beautifully.

By SopSir

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Aug 10, 2025

Another great class from Jules - I liked that 1)he uses the same scenarios throughout the class (the business expense scenario), 2) this is a business problem, 3) covers ethical considerations and also covered prompting scenarios!

By A L

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Jun 4, 2024

With the growing interest in Generative AI, this is a timely course to take in helping to understand how to build a custom AI assistant. I've learned so much from this course, and hopefully create a few. Thank you Prof White!

By Anders N

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Aug 5, 2025

Excellent introduction to Generative AI. The course has a well-paced structure and is easy to follow, making it ideal for beginners. Highly recommended for anyone looking to get started with Gen AI tools and concepts.

By Vincent S

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Jun 7, 2024

Great course, provides a nice intuitive introduction on how to use ChatGPT without requiring any programming skills. Jules White is upbeat and enthusiastic in presenting his course materials.

By Derrick J

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Aug 25, 2025

I had a great time going through this training and learned a few concepts that will help me in the future working with Artificial Intelligence prompting.

By Curtis C

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Aug 23, 2024

Incredible course! So vital for the creating GPTs and business assets like Chatbots. Incredible.

By Gladston V

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Aug 21, 2025

Dr Jules White is an amazing professor, I highly recommend this course! Thank you, professor.

By Rajeev S

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Jul 19, 2025

Excellent yet simple explanation, great analogies to explain complex concepts

By Clément C

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May 29, 2024

Too bad the exercices are not reviewed by a human so we can get better GPTs in the end... Otherwise, pretty good course, thanks a lot for this :-)