Working with Generative AI
Learn to steer generative AI models for writing, analysis, and creative problem-solving. Master clear prompting, catch convincing hallucinations, and understand how text prediction really works.
Like Duolingo, but for Working with Generative AI. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
A short one: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Directing the Machine and Quality, Trust, and the Engine Underneath. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Working with Generative AI
- Bare requests lead the AI to invent generic details to fill the void
- Specifying the scenario, key details, and goals gives the AI clear boundaries to generate relevant text
- AI output quality depends on the context provided in the prompt rather than guessing intent
- Naming an intended audience tells the AI to adjust reading level and sentence complexity
- Specifying a role or reader eliminates the AI's default bland, neutral tone
- AI draws on different vocabulary sets based on who it is told it is writing for
- Negative constraints explicitly tell the AI what NOT to include
- Rules like 'no corporate buzzwords' or 'under 100 words' suppress the AI's default verbose fluff
- Explicit limits force the AI to prioritize essential substance over pleasantries
- AI can natively output structured formats like markdown tables, bulleted lists, and email templates
- Requesting a structure up front shapes how the AI organizes information during generation
- By default, an AI guesses missing information instead of pausing to ask
- Prompting the AI to ask clarifying questions surfaces hidden assumptions before generation starts
- An interactive back-and-forth produces a much more accurate final draft than a single shot with missing details
- AI models retain the context and earlier drafts within an ongoing chat thread
- Starting a new chat forces you to re-explain the entire context from scratch
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 Generative 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.
You need an announcement about moving your running club's meetup from Saturday to Sunday. Which prompt gets you the most useful draft?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
Where Working with Generative AI takes you
- 1
Directing the Machine
- Getting Useful First Drafts
- Steering and Refining Outputs
- 2
Quality, Trust, and the Engine Underneath
- Catching Hallucinations and Weak Logic
- How the Next-Token Engine Thinks
2 sections · 4 units · 12 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 Generative AI is taught in the 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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