Session 1. Outline for Students
a. Purpose of course and the significance of the 'home page' quotations.
The importance of becoming an 'AI Aware' Community.
c. What the six sessions cover - and beyond.
Using the www.silverAIproject.com website.
The Yate and Sodbury song - and what it tells us about AI.
(Suno.ai and Udio.com)
The 'Course Preparation' page.
How to put OpenAI's ChatGPT on a phone or iPad.
Alternative Claude.AI from Anthropic
The @SilverAIProject X feed (Twitter).
d. Frequently asked questions (FAQ).
AI difference, AI danger, AI relevance to student, beginning to use AI
AI copyright, AI ethics, trusting AI [neural nets etc covered later]
e. The basics of AI Art as described below.
f. Reasons for producing AI Art.
g. Introducing Midjourney and reasons for its use in course.
h. 'Midjourney Showcase' page and 'picture to prompt'.
i. Midjourney documentation and prompt guides.
j. Third party artist styles page.
k. Evolving an image - the first prompt and the results.
basic controls, styles, text to image.
changing part of an image, expanding image outwards, about Session 3
l. Brief look at Diffusion as one way images produced.
m. Art Tools and free options
Free use allowed - leonardo.ai and ideogram.ai
Art Tools in search engines etc.
n. AI Art challenge - song + image.
Session 2 content using 'AI conversation' tools.