Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) at your fingertips: Fundamentals and practices

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) at your fingertips: Fundamentals and practices

The Inter-American Development Bank, through BIDAcademy, awards the following digital badge and certifies that the recipient has successfully completed the course "Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) at your fingertips: Fundamentals and practices". This badge reflects the recipient's ability to understand the basic workings of GenAI, appreciate its inherent creativity and envision its continued evolution. The course emphasizes the urgency of adopting GenAI, given its broad application and the paradigm shift in driving workplace practices. In addition, the course addresses the comprehensive understanding of the benefits, limitations and risks of GenAI in the workplace and provides fundamental knowledge for its responsible and safe use. The course also provides best practices for formulating effective prompts, in order to maximize the potential of GenAI as a support tool in the work environment.

Learning goals

  1. Describe Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), highlighting its mode of operation and its current and future evolution
  2. Recognize the importance of learning how to use GenAI in context, given its massive and extensive use in different fields
  3. Identify the uses, advantages, limitations and risks of GenAI, in order to use it responsibly at IDB and within your context
  4. Identify conditions for governing the responsible use of GenAI at IDB
  5. Describe the features, advantages, limitations and risks of IDB's Copilot Web when using it at IDB
  6. Describe how to interact more effectively with GenAItools, following the recommendations for developing prompts
  7. Identify possible use cases of GenAI tools at IDB and in your context

Learning experience and activities 

The recipient has obtained this badge through self-paced e-learning and has successfully completed the following tasks:

  • Review of text and multimedia presentations
  • Completion of a prior knowledge assessment
  • Participation in knowledge comprehension assessments in each of the four modules
  • Completion of a practical exercise that consisted of experimenting with generating functional prompts adapted to the student's work context
  • Successful completion of a final summative and comprehensive quiz

Content / Topics

  • Characteristics and applications of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)
  • Considerations for the responsible use of GenAI
  • Criteria to consider when using GenAI tools
  • Responsible use of GenAI at IDB
  • Features of Copilot Web
  • GenAI Use Cases at IDB
  • Generating effective interactions using GenAI tools
  • Appropriate structuring of prompts according to context
  • Keys to building effective interactions

Assessment description

This badge is issued to the recipient upon successful completion of:

  • Four knowledge assessments with a total of 20 questions, assessing the knowledge acquired in all course modules
  • A practical activity, which consisted of designing effective prompts that have been adapted to the student's work context
  • A final summative and comprehensive quiz of 10 questions

Estimated effort

Time to complete this course: approximately 7 hours.

Badge type

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