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AI for Real Life

Like Duolingo, but for AI for Real Life. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.

75 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free during early access · No credit card · iPhone & Android

Algo the Alpac-AI
AI for Real Life
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75
Levels
8
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in AI for Real Life

  • AI as a collaborative partner
  • AI vs Search Engines
  • Sharing goals with AI
  • Audience and Tone
  • Constraints in AI
  • Defining Format
  • Context and Specificity
  • The first response is rarely the final version
  • AI is most effective at generating a 'shitty first draft' to get you started
  • The difference between using AI as a partner versus a search engine
  • You can ask the AI to change the tone, length, or focus of its previous answer
  • It is easier to edit an AI's ideas than to stare at a blank screen
  • How specific context improves AI output quality
  • Iteration is a conversation where you give feedback on what the AI produced
  • Talking to AI like a person is more effective than using 'secret' codes
  • The iterative process of refining AI responses
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives AI for Real Life the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

Try a question

Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

Thinking Beyond the Search Bar

What is a primary difference between using a traditional search engine and an AI?

Get it right to open this lesson and 74 more in the app.

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Where AI for Real Life takes you

Go from curious observer to power user. This course covers everything from basic prompting and creative workflows to the ethics and underlying science of artificial intelligence.

  1. 1

    Your First Conversations

    • Starting the Dialogue
    • The Art of the Prompt
  2. 2

    Creating with AI

    • Writing and Editing
    • Summarization and Synthesis
    • Brainstorming and Ideation
  3. 3

    Visuals and Media

    • Generating Images
    • Advanced Visual Editing
  4. 4

    Quality and Accuracy

    • Spotting Hallucinations
    • The Iteration Loop
  5. 5

    AI at Work

    • Productivity and Automation
    • Data Analysis
    • Building an AI Workflow
  6. 6

    Ethics and Safety

    • Bias and Fairness
    • Privacy and Security
  7. 7

    Understanding the Machine

    • How LLMs Work
    • Technical Concepts for Everyone
  8. 8

    The Future Landscape

    • The Future of Work
    • AI in Daily Life
    • Global AI Ethics

8 sections · 19 units · 75 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

How it's taught

You pick the voice

This course
The Professor

AI for Real Life is taught in the The Professor style: clear, structured, thorough. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.

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