CompTIA AI Essentials

Hours: 6 / Access Length: 12 Months / Delivery: Online, Self-Paced
Retail Price: $179.00

Course Overview:

Gain foundational knowledge of artificial intelligence and its applications with CompTIA AI Essentials. This course helps you understand AI concepts, tools, and ethical considerations, preparing you to navigate AI-driven environments confidently.

Students will:

• Define Artificial Intelligence
• Understand types of AI
• Apply AI solutions in business settings
• Collaborate with AI
• Use AI to support your team
• Talk to coworkers about AI

Course Outline:

Lesson 1: AI Unveiled

The abilities to define Artificial Intelligence, choose the correct tools for your organization, and communicate about AI are essential to its successful implementation. Foundational information and practice are key to completing all three of these tasks.

Lesson 2: Generative AI Frontiers

Generative AI has quickly risen to be the most popular and widely known of the different types of AI. This technology has changed how professionals approach content creation, media development, and sparking creativity. As a modern-day professional, it is essential for you to understand how to use this tool in your day-to-day work. Generative AI, a subset of artificial intelligence, leverages advanced neural networks and techniques like Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to create new and original content by learning from existing data. These technologies enable machines to generate realistic images, text, and other forms of media, pushing the boundaries of creativity and automation. In the business world, generative AI is employed for various purposes, such as automating content creation, designing innovative products, and personalizing customer interactions, thereby enhancing operational efficiency and customer engagement. Examples of generative AI in action include ChatGPT, Claude, and Google Translate. The importance of generative AI lies in its ability to drive innovation, streamline creative processes, and provide new avenues for business growth and competitive advantage.

Lesson 3: Engineering Effective Prompts

Every AI output is only as good as the question, or prompt, that the user inputs. You must become a skilled engineer who can communicate well with AI. If you give AI tools useful information, you will receive useful information in return.

Lesson 4: Balancing Innovation and Privacy

As a new technology, AI presents novel and unique security and privacy concerns. Navigating these challenges requires awareness and common sense for all users, and will create new cybersecurity roles for professionals.

Lesson 5: Future Trends and Innovations in AI

As AI technologies are adapted and refined, they will impact peoples' daily lives and the trajectories of many industries. The ability to anticipate what artificial intelligence may bring next will give you an edge in all sectors.

All necessary course materials are included.

System Requirements:

Internet Connectivity Requirements:

• Cable, Fiber, DSL, or LEO Satellite (i.e. Starlink) internet with speeds of at least 10mb/sec download and 5mb/sec upload are recommended for the best experience.

NOTE: While cellular hotspots may allow access to our courses, users may experience connectivity issues by trying to access our learning management system.  This is due to the potential high download and upload latency of cellular connections.   Therefore, it is not recommended that students use a cellular hotspot as their primary way of accessing their courses.

Hardware Requirements:

• CPU: 1 GHz or higher
• RAM: 4 GB or higher
• Resolution: 1280 x 720 or higher.  1920x1080 resolution is recommended for the best experience.
• Speakers / Headphones
• Microphone for Webinar or Live Online sessions.

Operating System Requirements:

• Windows 7 or higher.
• Mac OSX 10 or higher.
• Latest Chrome OS
• Latest Linux Distributions
  

NOTE: While we understand that our courses can be viewed on Android and iPhone devices, we do not recommend the use of these devices for our courses. The size of these devices do not provide a good learning environment for students taking online or live online based courses.

Web Browser Requirements:

• Latest Google Chrome is recommended for the best experience.
• Latest Mozilla FireFox
• Latest Microsoft Edge
• Latest Apple Safari

Basic Software Requirements (These are recommendations of software to use):

• Office suite software (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice)
• PDF reader program (Adobe Reader, FoxIt)
• Courses may require other software that is described in the above course outline.