ChatGPT: Excel at Personal Automation with GPTs, AI & Zapier
Vanderbilt University via Coursera Specialization
Overview
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Unlock the potential of ChatGPT and Zapier to transform the way you approach personal and professional tasks through simple and intuitive prompt engineering techniques. This course is designed to empower you with the skills to create and customize GPTs (Generative Pre-trained Transformers) and integrate them with Zapier to automate everyday activities, enhance productivity, and simplify complex workflows.
Whether you’re looking to automate your work processes, manage personal tasks more efficiently, or streamline your daily routines, this course provides a launch pad to leveraging AI for personal automation. You will learn how to build powerful automation solutions that can handle everything from travel expense management and social media analysis to content creation and customer interactions, all tailored to your specific needs.
By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped with the knowledge to create custom GPTs and use Zapier to automate a wide range of tasks, transforming how you manage both your work and personal life. Discover the power of personal automation to free up your time to focus on the creative and critical thinking tasks that help you succeed.
Syllabus
Course 1: Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT
- Offered by Vanderbilt University. ChatGPT and other large language models are going to be more important in your life and business than your ... Enroll for free.
Course 2: OpenAI GPTs: Creating Your Own Custom AI Assistants
- Offered by Vanderbilt University. In the era of Generative AI, the demand for personalized and specialized Generative AI assistants is ... Enroll for free.
Course 3: ChatGPT & Zapier: Agentic AI for Everyone
- Offered by Vanderbilt University. Agentic AI is a type of AI that combines Generative AI with tools and actions, allowing us to build ... Enroll for free.
- Offered by Vanderbilt University. ChatGPT and other large language models are going to be more important in your life and business than your ... Enroll for free.
Course 2: OpenAI GPTs: Creating Your Own Custom AI Assistants
- Offered by Vanderbilt University. In the era of Generative AI, the demand for personalized and specialized Generative AI assistants is ... Enroll for free.
Course 3: ChatGPT & Zapier: Agentic AI for Everyone
- Offered by Vanderbilt University. Agentic AI is a type of AI that combines Generative AI with tools and actions, allowing us to build ... Enroll for free.
Courses
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ChatGPT and other large language models are going to be more important in your life and business than your smartphone, if you use them right. ChatGPT can tutor your child in math, generate a meal plan and recipes, write software applications for your business, help you improve your personal cybersecurity, and that is just in the first hour that you use it. This course will teach you how to be an expert user of these generative AI tools. The course will show amazing examples of how you can tap into these generative AI tools' emergent intelligence and reasoning, how you can use them to be more productive day to day, and give you insight into how they work. Large language models respond to instructions and questions posed by users in natural language statements, known as “prompts”. Although large language models will disrupt many fields, most users lack the skills to write effective prompts. Expert users, who understand how to write good prompts, are orders of magnitude more productive and can unlock significantly more creative uses for these tools. This course introduces students to the patterns and approaches for writing effective prompts for large language models. Anyone can take the course and the only required knowledge is basic computer usage skills, such as using a browser and accessing ChatGPT. Students will start with basic prompts and build towards writing sophisticated prompts to solve problems in any domain. By the end of the course, students will have strong prompt engineering skills and be capable of using large language models for a wide range of tasks in their job, business, personal life, and education, such as writing, summarization, game play, planning, simulation, and programming.
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In the era of Generative AI, the demand for personalized and specialized Generative AI assistants is skyrocketing. Large language models like GPTs have demonstrated their remarkable capabilities, but what if you could harness their power to create custom AI assistants tailored to your specific needs? Welcome to the world of custom GPTs, where you can build intelligent systems that understand your domain, speak your language, and solve your unique challenges. This cutting-edge course will guide you through the exciting journey of creating and deploying custom GPTs that cater to diverse industries and applications. Imagine having a virtual assistant that can tackle complex legal document analysis, streamline supply chain logistics, or even assist in scientific research and hypothesis generation. The possibilities are endless! Throughout the course, you'll delve into the intricacies of building GPTs that can use your documents to answer questions, patterns to create amazing human and AI interaction, and methods for customizing the tone of your GPTs. You'll learn how to design and implement rigorous testing scenarios to ensure your AI assistant's accuracy, reliability, and human-like communication abilities. Prepare to be amazed as you explore real-world examples and case studies, such as: 1. GPT for Personalized Learning and Education: Craft a virtual tutor that adapts its teaching approach based on each student's learning style, providing personalized lesson plans, interactive exercises, and real-time feedback, transforming the educational landscape. 2. Culinary GPT: Your Personal Recipe Vault and Meal Planning Maestro. Step into a world where your culinary creations come to life with the help of an AI assistant that knows your recipes like the back of its hand. The Culinary GPT is a custom-built language model designed to revolutionize your kitchen experience, serving as a personal recipe vault and meal planning and shopping maestro. 3. GPT for Travel and Business Expense Management: A GPT that can assist with all aspects of travel planning and business expense management. It could help users book flights, hotels, and transportation while adhering to company policies and budgets. Additionally, it could streamline expense reporting and reimbursement processes, ensuring compliance and accuracy. 4. GPT for Marketing and Advertising Campaign Management: Leverage the power of custom GPTs to analyze consumer data, market trends, and campaign performance, generating targeted marketing strategies, personalized messaging, and optimizing ad placement for maximum engagement and return on investment. Whether you're a business leader, entrepreneur, developer, or educator, this course will equip you with the skills to harness the transformative potential of custom GPTs. Unlock new realms of productivity, innovation, and personalized experiences by building AI assistants that truly understand and cater to your unique needs. Enroll now and join the forefront of AI revolution, where you'll learn to create intelligent systems that not only comprehend but also anticipate and exceed your expectations.
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Agentic AI is a type of AI that combines Generative AI with tools and actions, allowing us to build "agents" to assist us with everyday tools like Gmail, Office365, Google Sheets, Salesforce, etc. These agents can perform tasks on our behalf, such as updating a spreadsheet or sending an email. There are classes that teach these Agentic AI concepts, but they are geared towards programmers. If you aren't a programmer, they won't teach you how to build agents to help with your daily tasks. This class will teach you how to use ChatGPT and Zapier to build your own agents to help prioritize tasks, keep track of expenses, plan meals and shopping lists, etc. These won't be tools that require you to cut and paste the results back into an email; these will be tools that can directly create a draft email and put it into your email account or allow you to snap a picture of a receipt on the go and have it show up in a spreadsheet. These agents can automate and take action for you. By the end of this class, not only will you understand state-of-the-art aspects of Agentic AI, but you will have built your own Travel Expense Agent. Your agent will be able to take a picture of a receipt or a description of an expense and catalog it into a Google Sheet. It will check your expense with another agent for completeness, ensure the expense isn't already in the spreadsheet, and even draft an email to your administrator with a simple reimbursement report. This course will transform the way you work.
Taught by
Dr. Jules White