AI Basics: A Friendly, No-Jargon Guide for First-Time Users

You are not behind. There is no exam you missed.Everyone seems to be using AI. Your coworker mentions it casually. Your niece says it wrote her cover letter. Somewhere along the way it became a thing everybody understood except you - and asking now feels like admitting you weren't paying attention.This book assumes you have never used it. Not once. Not badly. Never.In eight short lessons, you'll learn what these tools actually are (without a single mention of how the technology works under the hood), which ones exist and how to pick one, what to type into that intimidating empty box, and how to tell when the answer you got is wrong. What's inside: - A ten-minute first session, with the exact things to try - Four ingredients that turn a vague request into a useful one - Real uses at home and at work - the ordinary ones, not the impressive ones - Four complete worked examples, start to finish, including one where the AI gets it wrong - Eight practice exercises with actual answers, so you can check yourself - A plain-English glossary and a prompting cheat sheet No hype. No promises about changing your life. No pretending this is harder than it is - and no pretending it always works, either.Written by someone who is not a data scientist, not an engineer, and not a futurist. Just someone a few steps ahead on the same path, who remembers exactly how confusing the first week was. Start today. Ask AI one thing.