Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT
Vanderbilt University · View on Coursera ↗
Taught by Dr. Jules White
Data ScienceComputer ScienceBusinessInformation TechnologySocial SciencesPersonal Development
About the course
ChatGPT and other large language models are going to be more important in your life and business than your smartphone, if you use them right. ChatGPT can tutor your child in math, generate a meal plan and recipes, write software applications for your business, help you improve your personal cybersecurity, and that is just in the first hour that you use it. This course will teach you how to be an expert user of these generative AI tools. The course will show amazing examples of how you can tap i
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