Study area · Technology
Generative AI Essentials
A working understanding of generative models without the hype: what they can do, where they fail, and how to check their work.
This programme sits inside Technology, one of the four study areas in the wider Programmes catalogue.
- GAI
- Certificate
- Kendahouse, Nairobi
What the training covers.
Every session runs as a workshop, not a lecture. You practise the routines of the job until they are second nature, with instructors who have done them for a living.
Apply via Student Applicant- 01 How a generative model produces text and images, in mechanism not metaphor
- 02 Prompting with precision: scope, constraints, and specifying the format
- 03 Retrieval and grounding: answering from provided sources, not memory
- 04 Hallucination, bias, and the failures that survive a clean demo
- 05 Evaluation: a small set of checks, run every time
- 06 Professional use: accountability, sourcing, and disclosure
- 07 What to automate and what never to
Programme facts
- Award
- Certificate
- Apply through
- Student Applicant
- Kiflaps programmes
- 40
- Fee
- With admissions
Dates, fees, and instalment options are confirmed with admissions. Nothing is quoted until you ask, and applications close four weeks before each intake starts.
The work it prepares you for.
The training aims at front-line roles like these across the industry.
- AI-literate analyst applying the tools to their own function
- Content or operations lead reviewing generated work
- Support engineer integrating AI answers into a workflow
- Professional writer or researcher using the tools with judgment
Who it suits.
Anyone who has sat through a vendor demo and left with more questions than answers. No programming required.
Pair it with a language
Pairs with Applied AI Engineering for the technical build, or Digital Marketing with AI for the applied content work.
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Start your application
Full programmes go through the Student Applicant form. Short programmes and online-only study enrol in the LMS.
Questions by phone: +254 714 772 289
Questions about Generative AI Essentials? Call +254 714 772 289 or message admissions.