As generative AI (GenAI) reshapes workplaces and job roles, using it effectively is now essential. Prompt engineering is the key to directing GenAI models and refining their output for desired results.
This course is for professionals, executives, students, and AI enthusiasts ready to harness prompt engineering to unlock tools like ChatGPT. You’ll learn practical techniques, structured methods, and best practices for crafting strong prompts. Explore zero-shot and few-shot prompting to boost reliability and output quality. Discover advanced methods such as the Interview Pattern, Chain-of-Thought, and Tree-of-Thought to produce accurate, context-aware responses. Hands-on labs and projects provide experience with multimodal prompting, the playoff method, and image generation. You’ll practice blending text and visuals and evaluating AI outputs for precision and usefulness. Podcasts, dialogues, and discussions link theory to real-world scenarios, while expert insights highlight strategies for effective prompt use. A final project and graded assessments ensure you can apply these techniques with confidence, leaving you with practical, job-ready skills. Hear from practitioners about the techniques and artistry behind writing impactful prompts. Enroll today to master prompt engineering and unlock GenAI’s potential.
KI
This is an excellent course for beginners. It clearly aligns the mind to think and write in a particular way that helps in getting better results from the AI tools.
M
Generative AI: Prompt Engineering Basics provides a clear overview of effective prompt design and essential strategies for optimizing AI output
HD
This course was an eye-opening introduction into the power of prompt engineering and how strategic inputs can drive more accurate, creative, and relevant responses from generative AI models.
IG
Excellent course for a beginner in generative AI, fundamental for interacting efficiently with AI. Comprehensive, many lab exercises, just great
KD
Provide basics of Generative AI Prompt Engineering through instruction, guided online activities, practice quizzes and reinforced by appearances of Industry Practitioners. Excellent Class!
HK
Great content! Especially the lab environment provided by IBM Watsonx is extremely useful. Looking forward to an advanced course in this series.
A
Very powerful course for understanding the logic behind LLMs and AI. You can fully optimise your use by better prompting after you learn from this course
MA
All techniques and tools were explained in a very clear manner. Labs are built for ease of use and are good hands-on experience to get the graps of the concepts and their benefits
GG
EXcellent! So well organized and clear, the possibility to practice really makes you feel you are learning and automatically triggers new ideas on which to apply the learned lessons.
SR
Excellent course. I really enjoyed the practical exercises - hands on that allowed me to work with the tool and explore its functionality in a guided way.
DJ
Excellent Course. Thoroughly explains all of the basics and terms of prompt engineering. Breaks everything down so that learners can comprehend the material. Would reccomend to anyone!
EN
Insightful! Glad I pick this up to learn all the science and art around prompt engineering. The hands-on exercise and tips given were very helpful.
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EXcellent! So well organized and clear, the possibility to practice really makes you feel you are learning and automatically triggers new ideas on which to apply the learned lessons.
All techniques and tools were explained in a very clear manner. Labs are built for ease of use and are good hands-on experience to get the graps of the concepts and their benefits
The hands on labs are very engaging and broadens the simplified theory for anyone interesting in prompt engineering. This will help me a lot in my IT security field.
Excellent course. I really enjoyed the practical exercises - hands on that allowed me to work with the tool and explore its functionality in a guided way.
Excellent Course. Thoroughly explains all of the basics and terms of prompt engineering. Breaks everything down so that learners can comprehend the material. Would reccomend to anyone!
Excellent course that brings clarity to the new world of Artificial Intelligence. I needed to understand why AI was so important and now I know! Thanks IBM and Coursera.
Videos are too short and superficial so you end up memorizing sentence by sentence to pass quizzes. Not a learning experience.
Videos are just quickly reading slides, quizzes give unhelpful feedback for incorrect answers and just say "watch the video again".
Signed up for Applied AI and suddenly IBM and Coursera decided to update the program to AI Developer program. Thumbs down, I only committed my time for 7 courses, but now you added 3 more courses and I can't continue anymore. Wasted my time big time!
Dear Teachers of a great Course - Generative AI: Prompt Engineering Basics IBM, Thank You very much for all your hard work and help and the opportunity to participate in this training Course. Thank You again for your hard work, time and willingness to help those who are interested.
Great for a beginner to get their head around the value of good prompts with multiple A.I. platforms
no aprendi un culo
Todavia no he puesto estos conocimientos adquiridos a la practica, puesto que justo lo acabo de terminar, sin embargo, su explicacion y como abordan los temas y puntos esta muy bien organizada y sencilla de entender. Estoy seguro que lo que aprendí aquí me servirá para un futuro.
Amazing and super instructive, it definitely worth every single second spend on it!! Thank to the team for this
quite superficial
Cant get certificate
Este curso es una excelente introducción práctica y accesible al mundo de la ingeniería de indicaciones (prompt engineering), especialmente diseñado para quienes recién se adentran en el uso de modelos de lenguaje generativos (LLM). Lo más valioso del curso es que no se enfoca solo en la teoría, sino que enseña cómo pensar al interactuar con la IA: cómo formular preguntas, estructurar instrucciones, y elegir el enfoque adecuado (como Chain-of-Thought, Tree-of-Thought o patrones de entrevista) según el tipo de problema. Los ejemplos son claros, los ejercicios bien diseñados y los conceptos se explican de forma sencilla, sin requerir conocimientos previos de programación. Además, aborda temas muy relevantes en la actualidad, como la mitigación de sesgos, la accesibilidad y el uso ético de los prompts, lo que demuestra una visión integral más allá de la mera técnica. Una posible área de mejora sería incluir más ejercicios prácticos interactivos con herramientas reales (como el Playground de OpenAI o IBM watsonx), pero en general, el curso cumple perfectamente su objetivo: empoderar a los usuarios para comunicarse de manera efectiva con la IA generativa. En resumen: ideal para estudiantes, profesionales de cualquier área o curiosos tecnológicos que quieran dejar de “probar suerte” con los asistentes de IA y empezar a guiarlos con intención, claridad y estrategia. RECOMENDADO 5/5
Buenas tardes. Fue una excelente experiencia ya que ahora conozco los usos importantes que se le pueden dar a la inteligencia artificial, aprendí sobre las grandes ventajas y capacidades que podemos aprovechar u obtener de los modelos de IA Generativa, utilizando Ingeniería de instrucciones o (Prompt engineering), ya que nos ayudan a estructurar un texto aplicando sus técnicas para que el modelo IA Generativa puede interpretar la informacion y comprender la instrucción y de esta manera generar textos, imágenes con un resultado optimo, ajustado las necesidades especificas del usuario. Por otro lado, quiero darle gracias a todos los colaboradores y al equipo de Coursera en general por su gran aporte y gran trabajo. Y por ultimo, conocí esta plataforma gracias a la recomendación de un profesor de un Diplomado que realice en Análisis de Datos con Python, hace casi dos meses, agradezco mucho a este profesor ya porque me ha parecido genial, es muy amigable, intuitiva e interactiva lo cual me ha animado , e impulsado muchísimo a seguir creciendo profesionalmente; esto también se debe a la calidez, profesionalismo, respeto y sencillez, que he conocido en la comunidad de Coursera en general. ¡Infinitas gracias!
Una experiencia transformadora y muy bien estructurada. Este curso superó mis expectativas. En pocos días, logré comprender a profundidad los conceptos clave de la ingeniería de instrucciones para IA generativa. Todo está presentado de forma clara, con ejemplos útiles y ejercicios prácticos que realmente ayudan a afianzar el conocimiento. Me gustó mucho cómo se abordaron temas como el bucle de retroalimentación, el enfoque del árbol del pensamiento y el perfeccionamiento de prompts. Además, completar este curso con una calificación perfecta me deja muy motivado a seguir aprendiendo. Lo recomiendo completamente a quienes deseen mejorar sus habilidades en IA generativa y aplicar estas técnicas en proyectos reales. Gracias IBM y Coursera por tan excelente formación. ¡Nos vemos en el siguiente reto!
The AI course offers a brief overview of key concepts. Some videos feel rushed, focusing more on tool names than substantive learning. It's a decent starting point but lacks depth on specific tools.