For beginners who want to understand AI before choosing more specialized training. You can watch the lessons without enrolling in a separate certificate program.
About this course
Get an accessible introduction to generative AI through five topic-led videos from Google AI Essentials. The collection addresses AI concepts, productivity, prompting, responsible use, and continued learning. It offers a compact route through the publicly available video material.
What you can learn
- Understand introductory AI concepts and everyday applications
- Improve prompts by adding context and reviewing the result
- Recognize responsible-use questions and plan continued learning
Course at a glance
| Provider | |
|---|---|
| Platform | YouTube · Grow with Google |
| Access | Free Video |
| Level | Beginner — WikiFree audience assessment |
| Main language | English |
| Available videos | 5 |
| Video duration | 1h 37m · allow extra time for practice |
| Details checked | 8 October 2026 |
Who is this for?
For beginners who want to understand AI before choosing more specialized training. You can watch the lessons without enrolling in a separate certificate program.
Put the ideas into practice
Write three versions of a prompt for summarizing a public article. Compare the outputs against the source, identify unsupported statements, and record which instructions made the result more useful. Avoid including confidential information.
Choose a video from the lesson list, search for a topic, or use Previous and Next to follow the official playlist order. Mark lessons complete as you go. Your progress is saved in this browser without requiring a WikiFree account.
Free videos and certificate access
These publicly available YouTube videos are free to watch. This listing does not include a Google Career Certificate, graded assignments, or access to a separate paid learning program. Some playlists introduce or preview a larger certificate curriculum. Any certificate enrollment and its current terms are separate from watching here.
Software, advertising, cloud services, and some AI features shown in the videos may require an account or a paid plan. Watching does not require purchasing those optional services. Recorded interfaces can differ from current versions.
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| Course | Level | Focus | Study time |
|---|---|---|---|
| This course — Free Google AI Essentials Course for Beginners | Beginner | Understand introductory AI concepts and everyday applications · Improve prompts by adding context and reviewing the result · Recognize responsible-use questions and plan continued learning | 1h 37m of video; practice time is additional |
| Free Generative AI Course: Build AI Applications | Beginner | Generative AI · Large language models · Prompt engineering | 8h 39m of video; practice time is additional |
| Master the ABCDQ of Prompting: Free Google AI Micro-Lesson | Beginner | Prompt planning · Clear task description · Output review | 10–15 minutes; official displayed estimates differ, individual study time varies. |
| Google Introduction to Generative AI: Free Beginner Course | Beginner | Generative AI vocabulary · AI and ML classification · Model-type comparison | 45 minutes; official estimated study time, individual pace varies. |
Provider: Google. Videos play from the Grow with Google channel on YouTube.
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