Gen AI Tutorial

Generative AI (Gen AI) is AI that creates new content: text, images, music, voices, video and code. You type a request, called a prompt, and the model generates a fresh result.

Tools like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude write and explain text. Other tools turn a sentence into a picture, a voice-over or a short video clip. Students, designers, marketers and programmers in Pakistan now use these tools every day.

This tutorial explains how generative AI works, what it is good at, where it fails, and how to use it honestly and safely.

What You Will Learn

• What generative AI is and how it differs from older AI
• How AI writes text, and what text tools are good for
• How image, audio and video generators work
• How a language model generates an answer, token by token
• Tokens, context windows and why long chats "forget"
• Hallucinations: why AI makes things up and how to catch it
• Using Gen AI responsibly at school and at work

A Simple Example

Here is a prompt you can try in any AI chatbot:

Explain what generative AI is to a 14-year-old student
in Karachi, in 3 short sentences, with one everyday example.

A good answer will be short, simple and use a local example, because the prompt asked for exactly that.

Exercises and Quiz

Every lesson ends with an exercise, and the last lesson is a quiz on the whole tutorial.

What to Learn After Gen AI

Start with the AI Tutorial if you want the basics first. To get much better results from these tools, learn Prompt Engineering. To build your own AI apps, continue with Chatbots and AI Agents.