Week 3: Behind the Scenes
Day 20: Multimodal and Generative Media
Goal
Learn how AI handles images, audio, and video.
Learn
Multimodal systems can process or generate across text, image, audio, and video. Image generators use prompts and conditioning. Speech systems transcribe or synthesize audio. Video tools combine generation, editing, temporal consistency, and controls. Results can be impressive but may contain artifacts or misleading realism.
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: learn how AI handles images, audio, and video..
Practice
Compare a text-only prompt to a prompt that includes an image reference. Note what improved and what still needed human judgment.
Checkpoint
Checkpoint
You can spot where multimodal AI helps and where it can mislead.