https://tutorials.shecodes.com.au/ai-fundamentals/index.html AI is changing how many of us work and live, and it’s changing quickly. Whether you feel excited, unsure or a bit of both, you’re in the right place. Lots of workplaces are trying it out. In one McKinsey survey, 62% of people said their company was experimenting with AI agents, but nearly two-thirds said their organisation hadn’t yet started using AI widely. Not everyone is getting the same chance to learn, though. A study by Lean In found that women were 22% less likely than men to use AI regularly at work. Hugo en-au https://tutorials.shecodes.com.au/ai-fundamentals/safety_and_ethical_considerations/index.html Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://tutorials.shecodes.com.au/ai-fundamentals/safety_and_ethical_considerations/index.html Before we start, here are a few things worth keeping in mind whenever you use AI. None of them are reasons to avoid it. They’ll just help you use it wisely. 1. AI can get things wrong Tools like ChatGPT and Claude are called large language models (LLMs). They don’t look up facts the way a search engine does. Instead, they write the text that’s most likely to come next, a bit like the autocomplete on your phone. And just as autocomplete sometimes changes kate to late, AI can make mistakes too. Sometimes it says something that sounds confident but isn’t true. This is called a hallucination. https://tutorials.shecodes.com.au/ai-fundamentals/lets_get_the_language_right/index.html Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://tutorials.shecodes.com.au/ai-fundamentals/lets_get_the_language_right/index.html There are lots of new words around AI, and it can feel like everyone else already knows what they mean. Let’s go through the common ones together. What do we mean when we say “AI”? Click through the tabs to learn some of the terms you might be hearing. ​ Narrow AI Machine Learning Deep Learning Large Language Models Generative AI AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) AI built to do one specific job, like filtering spam, recommending songs or unlocking your phone with your face. Chatbots count as narrow AI too. Almost all the AI in use today is narrow AI. https://tutorials.shecodes.com.au/ai-fundamentals/travel_assistant/index.html Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://tutorials.shecodes.com.au/ai-fundamentals/travel_assistant/index.html Now that you know a little about how AI works, let’s put it to use on something enjoyable: planning a holiday. Over the next few pages, you’ll teach Claude how you like to travel: your pace, your budget, the things you love and the things you’d rather skip. Then you’ll use Claude to help plan a trip around your own calendar, hand it a bigger research job, and set up a short brief that arrives each week before you leave. https://tutorials.shecodes.com.au/ai-fundamentals/describe_how_you_travel/index.html Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://tutorials.shecodes.com.au/ai-fundamentals/describe_how_you_travel/index.html Before you open Claude, grab a pen and paper (or a notes app) and have a think about how you like to travel. Why start here? An AI model writes the most likely helpful answer. If it doesn’t know anything about you, it plans for an average traveller. The more you tell it about yourself, the better its suggestions will suit you. Write it the way you’d explain it to a friend who’s helping you plan. Dot points are fine, and you don’t need to answer every question. https://tutorials.shecodes.com.au/ai-fundamentals/write_your_skill/index.html Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://tutorials.shecodes.com.au/ai-fundamentals/write_your_skill/index.html A skill is simply a text file called SKILL.md. It has two parts: a short header at the top that tells Claude what the skill is for and when to use it, and your instructions underneath, written in everyday language. You’ll write yours by filling in a template. First, let’s open somewhere to write it. Open a plain-text editor A plain-text editor saves only the words you type. Word processors like Word or Pages add hidden formatting that Claude can’t read, so they won’t work for this. https://tutorials.shecodes.com.au/ai-fundamentals/upload_your_skill/index.html Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://tutorials.shecodes.com.au/ai-fundamentals/upload_your_skill/index.html Your skill is written. Now let’s get it into Claude. Claude needs skills packaged in a particular way: your SKILL.md file goes inside a folder, and that folder is zipped into a single file. It’s a bit like posting a letter: the letter goes in an envelope, and the envelope goes in a parcel. When you’re done, it will look like this: my-travel-planner.zip └── my-travel-planner/ └── SKILL.md 1. Make a folder Make a new folder called my-travel-planner. The folder name needs to match the name line in your skill’s header exactly. https://tutorials.shecodes.com.au/ai-fundamentals/test_and_improve/index.html Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://tutorials.shecodes.com.au/ai-fundamentals/test_and_improve/index.html Now let’s see your skill in action. Start a new chat Open a new chat in Claude. A new chat doesn’t remember your earlier conversations, so you’ll see whether Claude uses your skill on its own. Then try two or three of these, changing the details to suit you: “Help me plan six days in Lisbon in May.” “I’m visiting my sister in Brisbane for a week. Suggest a few day trips.” “Make a packing list for two weeks in Japan in autumn.” “Compare a river cruise with a self-guided rail trip through France for us.” None of these mention your pace, budget or food. That’s because your skill fills in those details for you. https://tutorials.shecodes.com.au/ai-fundamentals/connect_your_apps/index.html Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://tutorials.shecodes.com.au/ai-fundamentals/connect_your_apps/index.html So far, Claude only knows what you’ve typed or uploaded. Your skill tells it how you like to travel, but it doesn’t know when you’re free. That’s where connectors come in. A connector is a secure link between Claude and another service you use, like your calendar or email. Once it’s connected, Claude can look things up there for you. With your permission, it can also make changes, like adding a trip to your calendar. https://tutorials.shecodes.com.au/ai-fundamentals/hand_over_a_whole_task/index.html Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://tutorials.shecodes.com.au/ai-fundamentals/hand_over_a_whole_task/index.html So far, you’ve asked Claude for one thing at a time. Now let’s try something bigger: handing over a whole job, the way you might to a capable assistant. This is what people mean when they talk about AI agents. You describe the result you want, and Claude works out the steps, carries them out one at a time, and gives you the result. Along the way, it can search the web, use your connected apps, follow your skill, and create documents or spreadsheets. https://tutorials.shecodes.com.au/ai-fundamentals/schedule_a_weekly_brief/index.html Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://tutorials.shecodes.com.au/ai-fundamentals/schedule_a_weekly_brief/index.html A scheduled task is a job Claude does for you regularly, without you having to ask each time. You describe the task once and choose how often it runs (hourly, daily, on weekdays or weekly). Claude does the rest. It can use your connected apps and your skill, and because it runs in the cloud, it keeps working even when your computer is off. In this step, you’ll set up a short brief that arrives every Monday in the lead-up to a trip. https://tutorials.shecodes.com.au/ai-fundamentals/staying_in_control/index.html Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://tutorials.shecodes.com.au/ai-fundamentals/staying_in_control/index.html You’ve built a lot today. Claude now knows how you like to travel, can see your calendar, can work through a bigger job, and can send you a weekly brief. The more Claude can do, the more it matters what you let it do. Here’s how to stay in charge. Two questions to ask Anthropic’s safety advice comes down to two questions: what can Claude see, and what is it allowed to do? https://tutorials.shecodes.com.au/ai-fundamentals/other_ai_tools/index.html Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://tutorials.shecodes.com.au/ai-fundamentals/other_ai_tools/index.html Use ChatGPT, Gemini or Copilot? Everything you’ve learnt here works in those tools too. The features just have different names and are in different places. The most useful thing you made today is your travel brief: the instructions in your SKILL.md. They work in any AI tool. Only the place you paste them changes. When you copy your SKILL.md, leave out the header (the lines between the two --- at the top), because only Claude uses it. You won’t need to zip or upload anything in these tools. You just paste in your brief.