Free resources

Things I actually use and recommend for getting better at AI at work. Everything here is free. If something stops being free, it comes off the list.

The tool your firm most likely gave you, documented by the people who sell it. Dry, but it answers "can Copilot even do that?" definitively.

Documentation

Written for developers, readable by anyone. The techniques — give the model your documents, ask for citations, let it say "I don't know" — transfer directly to Copilot and Gemini.

Guide

A Wharton professor writing honestly about what AI can and cannot do for professionals. The closest thing to this newsletter's mission with a much bigger research budget.

Newsletter

Free structured courses on working with AI, including tracks for non-technical professionals. Vendor material, so read it the way you would read any vendor material — but the fundamentals are solid.

Courses