Google Launches a New Course Called “AI Essentials”: Learn How to Use Generative AI Tools to Increase Your Productivity

in Artificial Intelligence, Google | April 30th, 2024 3 Comments

This week, Google announced the launch of Google AI Essen­tials, a new self-paced course designed to help peo­ple learn AI skills that can boost their pro­duc­tiv­i­ty. Taught by Google’s AI experts, and assum­ing no pri­or knowl­edge of pro­gram­ming, the course ven­tures to show stu­dents how to “use AI in the real world,” with an empha­sis on help­ing stu­dents:

  • Devel­op ideas and con­tent. If you’re stuck at the begin­ning of a project, use AI tools to help you brain­storm new ideas. In the course, you’ll use a con­ver­sa­tion­al AI tool to gen­er­ate con­cepts for a prod­uct and devel­op a pre­sen­ta­tion to pitch the prod­uct.
  • Make more informed deci­sions. Let’s say you’re plan­ning an event. AI tools can help you research the best loca­tion to host it based on your cri­te­ria. You can also use AI to help you come up with a tagline or slo­gan.
  • Speed up dai­ly work tasks. Clear out that inbox faster using AI to help you sum­ma­rize emails and draft respons­es.

Google AI Essen­tials fea­tures five mod­ules (the video above comes from Mod­ule 1) and takes about 9 hours to com­plete. The tuition is cur­rent­ly set at $49, and those who com­plete the course will earn a Google cer­tifi­cate that they can share with their pro­fes­sion­al net­work.

Google AI Essen­tials fol­lows up on anoth­er course recent­ly-fea­tured here on OC, Gen­er­a­tive AI for Edu­ca­tors. Find it here.

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Relat­ed Con­tent 

Google & Cours­era Launch New Career Cer­tifi­cates That Pre­pare Stu­dents for Jobs in 2–6 Months: Busi­ness Intel­li­gence & Advanced Data Ana­lyt­ics

Google & MIT Offer a Free Course on Gen­er­a­tive AI for Teach­ers and Edu­ca­tors

Google & Cours­era Cre­ate a Career Cer­tifi­cate That Pre­pares Stu­dents for Cyber­se­cu­ri­ty Jobs in 6 Months


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  • geel says:
    May 1, 2024 at 8:20 pm

    I think we bet­ter try it.

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  • Adeika Joy says:
    January 7, 2026 at 3:07 pm

    I was real­ly excit­ed to take this course (AI essen­tials) which I thought was free but I saw that a Tuition fee of $49 has been cur­rent­ly set on this course.
    Please is there any help or room for me to take this course for free? I would real­ly love to take it but have no mon­ey to pay at all, It would mean the world to me if I can get this offer for free,thank you.

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  • Usulor CHIDI CHRISTOPHER says:
    February 1, 2026 at 1:38 am

    Good morn­ing sir
    I have been search­ing for AI course online before I get to this.
    Most­ly attract­ed with free inscrip­tion. When I got deep­er $49;, fees came up.
    Is there any­way you can allow me access to the course as l have NO mon­ey 💰 now to pay please
    I feel learn­ing this AI course online will help me alot
    God bless you sir

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