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How Generative AI Works

Learn to understand tokens, patterns, prompts and generated outputs at a beginner level.

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What you will learn

Use this outcome directly on the page activity and record the evidence in your learning journal.

Use this outcome directly on the page activity and record the evidence in your learning journal.

Use this outcome directly on the page activity and record the evidence in your learning journal.

Use this outcome directly on the page activity and record the evidence in your learning journal.

Step 1. Read the purpose of How Generative AI Works and identify the result you need.

Step 2. Prepare a harmless example, approved source or fictional data set.

Step 3. Apply the page method to understand tokens, patterns, prompts and generated outputs at a beginner level.

Step 4. Check the result for accuracy, privacy, clarity, fairness and usefulness.

Step 5. Complete this activity: Ask an AI tool to explain the same idea for a child, a neighbour and a technician, then compare the outputs.

Safe and responsible practice: AI output can sound confident and still be wrong. Treat it as a draft until you have checked important claims.

Ask an AI tool to explain the same idea for a child, a neighbour and a technician, then compare the outputs.

Name the task before choosing a tool

Use safe sample information

Notice uncertainty and limitations

Keep a human responsible

Complete the practical activity for how generative ai works

Record what changed after review

Check the result on a mobile device

Ask a qualified person when consequences are significant

I understand the key ideas on this page. I completed or planned the practical activity.

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