Working with Everyday AI
Transform conversational AI from an unpredictable novelty into a reliable thinking partner. Learn how to direct prompts for sharp results, catch subtle hallucinations, and understand what the model is actually doing behind the screen.
Like Duolingo, but for Working with Everyday AI. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
A short one: 8 levels across 2 sections, about 16 minutes end to end, roughly 3 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Directing the Machine and Inside the Model. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Working with Everyday AI
- Prompting an AI without role, audience, or length constraints yields broad, generic textbook summaries
- Setting a specific persona tells the AI what voice and perspective to adopt
- Specifying the target audience and clear constraints (like length limits or an analogy) forces the AI to filter out unnecessary background
- Showing an AI one or two concrete examples of ideal output guides its formatting and tone better than lengthy explanations
- AI models excel at pattern-matching from provided examples
- Describing complex formatting in abstract prose often leads to small deviations in punctuation and layout
- Treating an initial AI response as a working draft lets you steer it with targeted follow-up instructions
- Follow-up prompts like 'Rewrite that more casually' or 'Shorten paragraph 2' preserve the good parts while fixing specifics
- Starting over from scratch wipes the AI's immediate context and often introduces entirely new inconsistencies
- AI models default to conversational pleasantries like 'Sure! Here is...' or 'Hope this helps!' unless explicitly barred
- Explicit negative constraints (e.g., 'no greetings', 'output only the list') strip unwanted filler
- Telling the AI to be polite or thorough encourages it to add extra introductory and concluding commentary
- AI models generate text by predicting which words sound plausible together, not by looking up facts in a verified database
- A model sounds equally fluent and authoritative whether it is stating a true fact or inventing a plausible lie
- Invented details stated as facts by an AI are commonly referred to as hallucinations
- Giving an AI the source text directly inside the prompt anchors its predictions to verified material
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Working with Everyday AI 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.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
Why would you tell an AI to act as a "patient tech-support guide" before asking your question?
Get it right to open this lesson and 7 more in the app.
Where Working with Everyday AI takes you
- 1
Directing the Machine
- Prompting for Usable Answers
- Catching Errors and Hallucinations
- 2
Inside the Model
- How Pattern Completion Creates Intelligence
2 sections · 3 units · 8 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
Tomo is in ChatGPT
Tomo is also a ChatGPT plugin: the same playable courses, built and played inside your chat.
Add Tomo to ChatGPT- What to ask
- “Make me a Tomo course on black holes.” “Turn this chat into a Tomo course.”
- What you get
- Quick questions with instant feedback, hearts and stars, ready to play in about a minute.
- Where it goes
- No sign-up to start. Connect your Tomo account and your streak carries on in the app.
You pick the voice
Working with Everyday AI is taught in the Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. 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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Start Working with Everyday AI today.
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