Generative AI Courses — How It Works

11 courses that explain how generative AI works — the technology behind tools that produce text, images, and other content from a simple prompt. They're conceptual and require no coding: the goal is to understand what's happening under the hood, what these systems do well, and why they sometimes get things confidently wrong.

Generative AI is the class of systems that create new content — writing, pictures, audio, code — rather than just sorting or labeling what already exists. These courses are about understanding how that works, not operating a particular tool or building one. They unpack the core ideas in plain language: what these models learn from, how they generate something new one piece at a time, and why the same technology that drafts a fluent email can also invent a convincing falsehood. If your aim is to actually use generative tools day to day, the Use AI track fits better; if you want to build applications with them in code, look to Develop AI. This page is for readers who want to understand how the technology works, with no math-heavy detail and no programming.