This introductory course is designed for beginners with no prior knowledge of generative AI. You will start by gaining a high-level understanding of what generative AI is and how it works. Through interactive lessons and hands-on examples, you will learn fundamental skills like providing effective prompts and iteratively improving the generated outputs. As the course progresses, you will dive deeper into specific major generative AI models, including their unique capabilities and limitations. Finally,, you will get practical experience using leading systems like GitHub Copilot, DALL-E, and OpenAI to generate code, images, and text. By the end, you will have developed core knowledge to start experimenting with generative AI in a responsible and effective way for a variety of applications. This course aims to provide a friendly introduction to prepare complete beginners for further exploration of this rapidly evolving technology.

Introduction to Generative AI

Introduction to Generative AI
This course is part of Large Language Model Operations (LLMOps) Specialization


Instructors: Noah Gift
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Learn to utilize Generative AI for automation.
Develop Generative AI software solutions.
Build solutions with Prompt Engineering to enhance Generative AI output.
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Reviewed on Jan 23, 2026
This is a very useful course for understanding the Generative AI. The explanations are easily understood. The course structure is designed to keep the learners interest.
Reviewed on Oct 6, 2025
This Course gives good introduction to Gen AI it was organized but the quiz and assignment section was not so good and I think it needs to be revised.
Reviewed on Nov 3, 2025
good course but should have extra material for reference like docker azure openai and other tools tutorials and docs references.
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