If you use AI for anything at all (email, work, school, a recipe, a letter to your landlord), there are two things you need to know first. They aren't tips or tricks. They are two facts about how this thing behaves, and everything else in this course sits on top of them.
When you ask it a question, it is not pulling a book off a shelf and reading you the answer. It is producing the answer that is most likely to come next.
Most of the time, "most likely" and "correct" are the same thing. That's why it's useful. Sometimes they aren't, and when that happens it doesn't slow down, hedge, or warn you. A wrong answer comes out in the same calm, confident voice as a right one: a name that doesn't exist, a date off by a year, a step that isn't there, a quote nobody said.
Inside one conversation it can lose track of what you told it earlier, especially as the conversation gets long. An instruction you gave twenty messages ago may quietly stop being followed.
And unless a tool is specifically built to remember, a new chat starts from nothing. It doesn't know you, your job, your last question, or what you decided yesterday.
Why does it work this way? Good question, and it has a real answer. You don't need it yet. The why is Section 3 of the course, and by then you'll have watched both facts happen with your own eyes.
TRYING THIS FOR A FRIEND? Tell them what was confusing, what worked, whether the copy buttons behaved on your phone, and roughly how long it took.