Using Multimodal AI: Analyze Images, Summarize Documents, and Generate Content

AI has moved well beyond text-in, text-out. Today's AI tools can look at a chart and explain what it shows, read a dense PDF and pull out the key points, and generate images, formatted documents, and structured content from a simple prompt. For professionals who work with a mix of media, this opens up possibilities that can dramatically reduce the time spent on analysis, synthesis, and content creation. This course gives participants direct experience with multimodal AI across a range of realistic workplace scenarios, building practical skills and the judgment to know how to get the most out of these tools.

Learners will have the opportunity to:
1. Explore how multimodal AI differs from text-only tools and what it can and cannot do reliably
2. Practice uploading and analyzing images, including charts, diagrams, screenshots, and photographs
3. Use AI to summarize, extract key information from, and ask questions about uploaded documents
4. Experiment with generating images and visual content using AI tools
5. Work with AI to produce structured content like reports, presentations outlines, and formatted summaries from mixed inputs
6. Develop strategies for prompting multimodal AI effectively and evaluating the quality of its outputs

Topics include:
- Introduction to multimodal AI capabilities and limitations
- Image analysis and interpretation
- Document summarization and extraction
- AI image generation
- Structured content creation from mixed inputs
- Prompting strategies for multimodal tasks