We build a first solution. That way you immediately experience what it is like to have a first 'bot' — for yourself and perhaps already for your organisation.
The fastest way to understand AI is to build one yourself. In this module you create your first AI solution, so you immediately experience what it is like to have your own 'bot' — for yourself and possibly already for your organisation.
With this knowledge you can shape your own learning process as efficiently and effectively as possible in the modules that follow: from now on you use AI yourself as a tool for both your studies and your work.
Building something that works used to be reserved for those who could program. That barrier is gone: in this subject you build a bot that actually does something in an afternoon. With it goes the scarcity that defined IT for decades — build capacity.
What becomes scarce is judgement: what is worth building, and where does it go wrong? You will not get that from a lecture. You get it by doing it once yourself and seeing exactly where your bot falls over.
You build for your own work context: a bot that answers a real question from your team or department — and you conclude with a professional product and an assessment.
An operations officer builds a bot that answers questions about schemes and forms — with source references.
An HR adviser creates an assistant that helps new colleagues find their way in their first hundred days.
A team coach tests a bot that fields routine questions, so the team keeps time free for complex cases.
You take this module the way you take the whole programme: classes every other week on Friday and Saturday, with a study load of 15–20 hours per week, of which 10–15 hours is self-study. The teaching is a mix of classroom lessons, practice-based learning, blended learning and working groups or study teams — taught by lecturers who practise the profession themselves on a daily basis.
You conclude each theme with a professional product or a technical solution addressing a real situation in your own work, which you discuss in an assessment with the lecturer. That way your portfolio grows with real work — and your employer benefits directly.
The format is not new: the teaching approach and the AI modules have been running for three years at the AI Proeflokaal — with business, with government, and across part-time modules and minors. What you meet in class here has already been worn in elsewhere.
After this module you have a working bot for your own work context, tested with real users, plus a test report.
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