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AI for the Curious is a hands-on academy for learning AI, from your very first chat to building and governing real systems. Each lesson is short: you read a little, see it, then actually do it. All you need is a phone or computer, a free AI assistant, and about 20 minutes per lesson.
How the academy is organized
Every lesson belongs to one of six stages of the journey:
Understand
Use
Build
Train
Evaluate
Govern
And there are five suggested paths through it, depending on who you are:
AI Literacy
For: Everyone: knowledge workers, students, curious citizens.
Understand and use AI confidently and safely.
AI User
For: Power users, analysts, creators.
Get genuinely productive at work and at home.
AI Application Engineer
For: Software developers.
Build and evaluate real AI applications.
ML & AI Engineer
For: Machine learning and research engineers.
Train, evaluate, and run models.
AI Leadership & Governance
For: Managers, founders, policy owners.
Lead AI safely and responsibly in an organization.
How a lesson works
Learn it
Short reading, a clear picture, and a 20-second "Try it" after each idea. A running character (like Ingrid or Sam) gives every example a real-life job to do.
Practice it
Optional real-world exercises on your own tasks, with free tools. Three "picks" show where to start.
Prove it
A short quiz you can retry as often as you like. Finish it and the next lesson opens. The owl pops up now and then to cheer you on.
Where should you start?
Three quick questions. Nothing is sent anywhere; your answer is remembered only in this browser.
Free, and how accounts work
The first 5 lessons are open to everyone. Every other lesson is free too; it just needs a free account (email and password, or a sign-in link by email).
An account saves your progress across devices and keeps your certificates. Curious Kids (ages 8 to 12) needs no account at all.