AI GUIDEWhat completing Base means
Base is complete when you can recognise useful AI capabilities, choose an accessible tool, give it sufficient information and check a small result. You do not need to explain neural-network mathematics, configure an API or build an agent.
Your final task is a fictional community reading afternoon. You will prepare a practical one-page guide from the supplied facts. This combines the document, table and communication skills from the programme. An optional image or voice exercise lets you explore another capability, but neither is required to finish.
Use any assistant you can access. If you cannot access one, write your request and expected result on paper, then return to the live exercise when access is available. Reading alone is not the same as completing the practice.
Your complete source pack
All facts are fictional: “Reading afternoon, 21 June 2027, 15:00–17:00, North community room. Maximum 12 guests. Venue hire €24. Materials cost €2 per attending guest. No food supplied. Booking method has not been decided. The organiser has not set a ticket price.”
Task: prepare a short invitation draft, an organiser checklist and a cost table for 6, 9 and 12 guests. Keep the invitation unsent. Do not infer a ticket price, dietary arrangements or a booking link. Ask the assistant to separate facts, calculations and open decisions.
An effective request names the source, audience, deliverables and unknowns. Write your own version before using this example: “Use only the supplied event note. Draft an invitation and checklist, calculate event costs at three attendance levels, show the arithmetic and list unresolved decisions. Do not claim anything has been booked or sent.”
Check against a worked answer
Expected arithmetic: 6 guests cost €24 + €12 = €36; 9 cost €24 + €18 = €42; 12 cost €24 + €24 = €48. The cost per guest would be €6, approximately €4.67 and €4 respectively. These are costs, not an approved ticket price or a profit calculation.
A suitable invitation draft preserves the date, time, place and capacity, says there is no food, and marks the booking instructions as pending. It does not invite 20 people or assert that entry is free. The checklist includes deciding how people book and whether to charge them.
Change one fact: venue hire is now €30. Ask for a revision. Expected totals become €42, €48 and €54. Check that the date and capacity did not change. This shows whether you can direct a correction instead of accepting the first output.
Finish and choose the next depth
Use five checks. Your request defines the deliverable. Your final guide preserves every supplied fact. Missing decisions remain visible. The numbers match independent arithmetic. You can explain what the assistant did and what it did not do. All five must hold; this is a practical self-check, not an accredited exam.
If one fails, return to the relevant lesson and revise the same task. Do not start collecting more tools to avoid fixing the result. Save the source, your request, the corrected guide and a short note explaining one correction. That is your Base completion portfolio.
Optional extensions: rehearse the invitation aloud using P04, or write an illustration brief using P03. Continue to Advanced if you want to understand model choice, retrieved knowledge, multimodal processing and system design. You may also stop here and apply Base to a new everyday task: Advanced is an available next level, not a requirement for useful AI use.
Sources
Read the original sources to explore the topic and check specific claims.