All course materials are on this website www.silverAIproject.com where they are arranged as six sessions on different topics. During a course there will be a lot of additional background to help you make sense of all of this.
1. Welcome. The Silver AI Project is a course which is intended to spread the basic skills of using AI to non-technical users, which is of course the vast majority of people. AI at heart is 'intelligence on tap' and anyone who uses it is therefore giving themselves the advantages that come with added cleverness.
2. Arranging Access to AI Tools. You can attend the course without ever touching a keyboard. If so then no need to read this further! On the other hand, if you would like to use the AI software tools, do 'sign up' to one or more of the AI tools below that allow free use. During the course itself there won't be much time for you to use AI Tools so use will typically be 'at home' between the Sessions. It can help to get set up prior to the course however so you can ask for help if needed.
Visibility can be imperfect in some venues or for online courses - so people with weaker eyesight may find difficulty in seeing. If so do use an iPad or equivalent along to view the course website to help you follow along. The course website is:
www.silverAIproject.com
Note. Some AI tools ask for you to logon using a 'Discord account'. If so, that is a popular business collaboration tool and an account is free.
2.1 AI Music Tools.
The course usually starts by looking at a song from somebody like www.suno.ai as it is a very gentle and amusing way to start using AI tools. Indeed the majority of people on the courses usually create at least one Suno song, and an AI image to match it. Suno is free to use though in busy times you will get kicked off in favour of those with a subscription. There is also now a second powerful music tool which is called Udio www.udio.com.
2.2. AI Art Tools.
Most students wish to create some AI Art for themselves. There are many options. The best tool at the moment is probably Midjourney but that is subscription. Below are two tools with free options. In no case should you need to give credit cards details.
Ideogram.AI. Has a FREE option and has been the most frequently used free art tool by course students recently.
Ideogram link is Ideogram AI.
Leonardo.AI. This AI Art tool has a free 'daily' allowance for you to use. Link to create a Leonardo account.
2.3 AI Chat Tools. We start looking at these in Session 2 onwards but if you want to get ahead then sign up now. There are many choices here as a 'free' option is often given.
We recommend Claude AI and OpenAI ChatGPT as both have the powerful free options as well as paid subscriptions. They are available online and as Apple and Android App but please be careful - there are lots of similar sounding ones. If an app insists that you enter a credit card, you probably have the wrong one. Beware.
3. X (Twitter) .
Some students find it useful to set up a free X account to follow the course X account @silverAIproject which tracks latest developments and sometimes showcases student work.