What would you like to do?

You don’t need to know the right words. Pick something below. We’ll take it one step at a time.

Included for FIT workshop participants

Your workshop access includes image and video generation here.

Make pictures, short videos and slides without a separate AI account. Use the workshop password. Video generation has a shared allowance, shown on its page.

Sponsored by Douglas Jay Goldstein for this workshop. External services below use their own accounts and credits.

Tools & resources →ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Runway, Higgsfield, ElevenLabs, Descript and more. What each does and when to use it.Ask for help.Tell the chatbot what you want to do. It will help with one step at a time.Find some help

I’m new to AITry one message. See what happens.Help me write the promptYou don’t need to know the right words.Make a pictureDescribe it. Look at it. Change one thing.Make a short videoStart with one picture and one movement.Make a slideA title, a sentence, a picture if you want.Make my slides look betterMake one good choice, then repeat it.Make pictures play like a storyA simple alternative to generating video.Can I trust this answer?Three checks before you use it.

What does that word mean?

You can look these up whenever they come up.

Software that can produce answers, pictures or other material from your request. Its output needs checking.

Prompt

The message or instructions you give an AI tool.

Follow-up

Your next message in the same conversation, such as “Make that shorter.”

Context

Background that helps the tool understand your request: who this is for, what you have and what you need.

Generate

Ask the tool to create something.

Pipeline

A few steps joined together. For example: make a picture, turn it into a clip, put the clip on a slide.

Input / output

What you put into a tool / what you get back.

Storyboard

Pictures that plan the order of a story or film.

Animatic

Still pictures played in order with timing, to try out a story.

Synthesis

Bringing information from several places together into a useful explanation, including where sources disagree.

Model

The version of AI doing the work inside a tool. You do not need to choose one to start these lessons.

Export

Save your work as a file another app can open, such as a PowerPoint or MP4.

Hallucination

An answer AI invents but presents as if it were true.

More examples and downloads

These are optional. Start with a short guide above if you’re unsure.