AI GUIDEREAD IN ORDER · EN / RU
Base — understand and use AI
An introductory reading collection covering AI concepts, documents, data, images and voice, with optional examples to explore.
About this collection
Use an accessible AI assistant independently for a small everyday task, preserve facts and check the result.
12 articles available in this view. Read at your own pace and explore the examples that are useful to you.
Examples to explore
- A clear task request
- A checked document and calculation
- A revised final guide with unknowns preserved
This is a personal reference collection. There is no enrolment, assessment or certificate. Use fictional information when trying examples and check results against the original sources.
Articles are available here after publication. Drafts remain private until their editorial review is complete.
12 available articles. No account or profession selection needed.
- Understand the AI system you are using →
Understand what AI can do and distinguish a model, an application, a source and an action.
- How AI learns, answers and uses information →
Understand training, generated answers, supplied documents and connected tools without needing mathematics or code.
- Meet the main AI services without choosing a winner →
Meet recognizable AI services and compare them on a small task without chasing a universal winner.
- Have your first useful AI conversation →
Open an official service, ask a simple question, refine the answer and know when to verify elsewhere.
- Ask for useful work and check the result →
Describe a useful task, compare provided options and check facts, calculations and constraints.
- Choose a useful AI application in work and daily life →
Discover everyday transformations: notes to a document, numbers to a chart, an idea to an image and voice practice.
- Have a useful voice conversation with AI →
Try a short spoken explanation or rehearsal, ask follow-up questions and keep control of microphone and camera access.
- Turn a confusing document into an explanation you can check →
Ask questions about a supplied letter, compare what it states with what is missing and prepare a useful one-page guide.
- Turn a small table into a chart you can explain →
Choose a question, check a calculation and use AI to prepare a chart without inventing data or conclusions.
- Explore an idea with AI images, then direct the changes →
Write a visual brief, distinguish generation from editing and judge whether a fictional poster concept serves its purpose.
- Understand what is changing and what remains uncertain →
Separate existing capabilities from demonstrations, productivity claims and uncertain forecasts.
- Finish Base: use AI to prepare something useful →
Bring together a source, an explanation, a calculation and a small deliverable; check whether you can use AI independently.