Week 2: Everyday Use
Day 11: Files, PDFs, Images, and Audio
Goal
Use multimodal AI to work with more than plain text.
Learn
Modern AI tools can read screenshots, PDFs, spreadsheets, images, audio, and video clips depending on the product. Multimodal does not mean perfect understanding. Scans can be misread, charts can be interpreted incorrectly, and images can hide important details.
Behind the scenes
AI tools are products wrapped around models, data, prompts, retrieval, safety systems, and user interfaces. The better you understand the wrapper, the better your results get.Example
Example: in a real workflow, this idea helps you decide how to use AI carefully. For this lesson, connect the goal to one task you already do: use multimodal AI to work with more than plain text..
Practice
Upload or describe a simple chart and ask the AI to summarize it, then check whether the numbers match.
Checkpoint
Checkpoint
You can use multimodal AI while still checking the source material.