Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Fun and Profit

A 4-Part Live Virtual Course in Generative AI Tools, Prompting, and Practical Creativity

Taught live by Pariah Burke—world-renowned author, educator, and creative professional.

No prior experience needed! Open to everyone!

• Brand new to AI? Come on in!
• Tried your hand at it but don't know what what you don't know or how to take full advantage of the capabilities of AI? Welcome! Have a seat in the virtual classroom!
• Already use some AI features but want to expand your repertoire? You'll fit in in this class, too!

AI isn’t coming—it’s already here. It’s not going away. Put AI to work for you and unlock new possibilities in everything you do at home, at work, and at play.

This is more than just another AI webinar. Introduction to AI for Fun and Profit is a hands-on, real-world course designed for real-world, every day people—creatives, solopreneurs, business owners, marketers, job-seekers, and anyone who wants to learn how artificial intelligence can help them every day. Students will be taught practical, real-world AI skills for today and tomorrow.

Across four 4-hour classes this June, you will learn to use the most powerful and accessible AI tools available today—from ChatGPT to DALL·E, Sora to Runway, NotebookLM to ElevenLabs AI voices and beyond. You’ll apply them in hands-on exercises that reflect real-world creative, business, and personal needs—guided by a live instructor who’s ready to answer your questions and help you succeed.

Whether you want to...

• Increase your career opportunities
• Launch a side hustle
• Make your business run faster
• Supercharge your creativity
• Or just have fun with powerful new tools

...this hands-on course is for you!

After each class, you will walk away with AI skills you can use immediately—at home, at work, or at school.

🗓️ Week Nights or Weekends? Two Tracks to Choose From

For your convenience, Introduction to AI for Fun and Profit is being offered at two different times—week nights or weekends—with the same instruction and projects in each track. Chooes the best fit for your schedule—either Wednesdays or Saturdays—to learn the exciting, fun, and, if you want, profitable skills to use available (and mostly free) cutting edge artificial intelligence tools that are changing every facet of modern life, work, and play.

Wednesday Evenings in June

• June 4, 11, 18, and 25
• 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM Pacific Time / 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM Eastern Time
• With a 15-minute break.

Saturdays in June

• June 7, 14, 21, and 28
• 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM Pacific Time / Noon to 4:00 PM Eastern Time
• With a 15-minute break.

📅 Course Format

• 4-Part Live Virtual Course via Zoom (each track is 4 classes, one per date listed above)
• Please arrive 20 minutes early to test your tech setup
• Each session includes live demos, guided hands-on projects, and Q&A
• No prior experience necessary!

Recordings will be available after each class for Full and VIP Pass holders to watch again.

✋ Live, Not Pre-recorded

• Ask questions live!
• Ask for a topic to be explained a different way!
• Get instant help with the exercises and projects!

📅 What You’ll Learn – Week by Week

WEEK 1: What AI Is — and What It Can Really Do

• What AI is (and what it’s not)
• What can AI do for your life?
• What can AI do for your career?
• How can AI help you in your side hustle or hobby?
• Prompting fundamentals and best practices
• Compare output and results across multiple AIsTool overview: ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, DeepL Translate, DeepSeek, and more

WEEK 2: Bringing Your Imagination to Life with AI Imagery

• AI image creation and editing
• Creating images that are photographic, fantastical, cartoonish, 3D, and more
• Making your next logo with AI
• Planning visual content for brand, social media, and web
• Prompting for style, layout, color, and subject
• Strengths and weaknesses of each image generator

WEEK 3: Make Your Imagination Move and Talk with Video, Audio, and Presentations

• Create movies, slideshow presentations (aka PowerPoints), podcasts, audiobooks, voiceover for explainer videos, commercials, and more just by typing a few sentences
• Extend and fix existing video and audio by having AI create a few seconds more replace bad parts
• Instantly generate songs in any genre or style using AI-generated lyrics or lyrics you write
• Create your own background music for videos, podcasts, and more
• Design and animate a unique character
• Bring any voice you can imagine to your audio—even a clone of your own voice
• Use cases for video, voiceovers, music visualizers, and slide decks

WEEK 4: Advanced Prompting and Multi-AI Workflows

• Tying together and going beyond the previous 3 class's projects
• Types of prompts and strategies
• Asking AIs to improve or rewrite your AI prompts (AIs programming themselves)
• Long-term life, career, or project strategy and planning with AI
• How to have AIs take on specific expert roles for focused assistance
• Using multi-personality and multi-specialty AIs
• Talking to AIs and having them talk back
• Using multi-personality and multi-specialty AIs
• Creating, deleting, and working with AI Memory
• Creating and defining AI Projects for organization, focus, and separation of your life areas
• Research and organization with NotebookLM
• Combining multiple AIs for astonishing multi-step flows

Who This Course Is For

• Real people—not programmers or AI experts
• Anyone who needs more from AI who wants practical skills they can use immediately
• Solopreneurs, freelancers, and side hustlers
• Creatives and content producers
• Educators, marketers, and consultants
• Curious professionals from any background

No experience required. If you can write a sentence, you can start using AI in this course!

What You Get

• 16 hours of live instruction (4 hours per class X 4 classes @ 1 per week)
• Guided, hands-on projects in every class
• Post-class recordings (Full & VIP Pass holders only)
• Certificate of Completion (Full & VIP Pass holders)
• AI Tools and Resources Checklist (PDF)
• VIP Bonus: 20-minute private 1:1 consultation with Pariah Burke
• VIP Bonus: Exclusive Resource Pack (prompt templates, toolkits, slides)

Why Take This Course?

• Hands-on learning: Guided projects in every class
• Instructor-led: Live training from Pariah Burke, a 25-year software educator
• Practical focus: Real tools, real results, real projects
• Replay access: Full recordings available after each session
• Build your toolkit: Leave with a personalized AI stack you can use right away

Requirements

• Stable internet connection, microphone, and (optional) webcam
• A free ChatGPT account and willingness to try new tools
• Enthusiasm for fun, practical learning!

About the Instructor

Pariah Burke is a 25-year veteran of digital design, publishing, and tech education. He’s the author of 14 books, hundreds of tutorial articles and videos, and a world renowned consultant and instructor in Adobe and Microsoft software and real-world, practical uses of them. With a passion for empowering real people—professional and otherwise—through technology, Pariah has taught tens of thousands of people around the world how to unlock their potential through smarter workflows—including generative AI.