Step 1Our videoAI Broadsheet
What is AI? Meet the players.
Our opening titles: the people racing to build AI, one card at a time, in under two minutes.
- 2 min
- Beginner
- Free
- English only
AI Broadsheet Labs
Path 1 of 6 · Anyone, starting from zero
Start here: what AI is
Who builds AI, what it really does when it answers you, and where it falls down. No jargon, no code.
- Time
- 6 h 35
- Steps
- 5 + 1 optional
- Level
- Beginner
- In French
- 3 of 6
- Price
- Free
You'll be able to
- Explain what generative AI is in plain words
- See where AI already shows up in your day
- Name its main limits: invented facts, bias, stale knowledge
- Recognize the companies and labs behind the tools
5 steps
Step 2Our guideAI Broadsheet
What AI can do for your everyday life
Translation, paperwork, accessibility, learning and job searching — practical uses for people, not just companies.
Where you already use AI without noticing.
- 5 min
- Beginner
- Free
- FR
Step 3CourseAnthropic
AI Capabilities and Limitations (opens in a new tab)
A short mental model of how generative AI behaves: why it is excellent at some tasks and unreliable at others, with small try-it-yourself activities.
Why it is brilliant at some things and unreliable at others.
- about 45 min
- Beginner
- Reading · Interactive
- Free
- English only
- Provider certificate
Step 4CourseGoogle
Introduction to Generative AI (opens in a new tab)
A 45-minute micro-course on what generative AI is, how it differs from older machine learning and where it is used.
A 45-minute primer on the technology itself.
- 45 min
- Beginner
- Video
- Free
- English only
- Provider certificate
Step 5CourseCIFAR
Destination AI (opens in a new tab)
CIFAR's free introduction adapted for Canadians: what AI is and isn't, its effects on work and society, and how an AI project actually runs.
The Canadian introduction, in English or in French.
- 5 h
- Beginner
- Reading · Video
- Free
- FR: French edition (opens in a new tab)
- Provider certificate
Go further
Step 6CourseUniversity of HelsinkiOptional
Elements of AI (opens in a new tab)
The classic no-code introduction: what AI is, how machines learn, and what it means for society, with exercises in every chapter.
Want the long version? The classic course, still no code.
- about 30 h
- Beginner
- Reading · Interactive
- Free
- FR: French edition (opens in a new tab)
- Provider certificate