Simple, hands-on classes for community members who want to understand and use AI in everyday life. No tech skills required — just curiosity.
Introduced AI agents and how they differ from a plain chatbot. Agents can plan, execute multi-step tasks, use tools, and run workflows on your behalf — no coding needed. Covered real-world examples and live demos. Class ran one focused hour. Great energy and lots of follow-up questions.
AI agents for your finances, retirement, career, and business ideas — hands-on, one hour, free. Takes 30 seconds to register.
✓ Free to attend ✓ No experience needed ✓ Bring your laptop
Six practical ways to put AI agents to work on the things that matter most — your money, your retirement, your career, and your ideas. One hour. Free. No experience needed.
Agents go beyond answering questions — they plan, take steps, use tools, and complete goals on your behalf. We'll show exactly how that works with live examples you can try yourself.
Ask it to review a bank statement, explain a bill, compare credit card rates, or build a monthly budget. No spreadsheet skills needed — just describe what you want to understand.
Run "what if" scenarios on Social Security timing, Medicare plan options, and retirement income. Get plain-English answers to questions your advisor charges by the hour to explain.
Use an agent to research your field, rewrite your résumé for a specific role, prep for an interview, or map the skills gap between where you are and where you want to be.
Validate an idea, size the market, research competitors, draft a one-page business plan, or write your first sales pitch — an agent can run this whole workflow while you watch.
Grocery planning, appointment prep, medical question research, home project estimates — the same agent mindset applies to everything you do. We'll show a handful of everyday wins.
Most recent first. All sessions are free, held at Santa Maria Lodge #220, 28024 Bunert Road, Warren, MI — Wednesdays 6:00–7:00 PM.
| Date | Topic | Status |
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| Jun 3Wednesday | AI Agents in Your Daily Life — Finances, Retirement & Career How to use agents for budgeting, retirement scenarios, career growth, and entrepreneur ideas. One hour, hands-on. |
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| May 27Wednesday | AI Agents — What They Are and How to Use Them Introduced agents, how they plan and execute multi-step tasks, and live demos. First 1-hour format class. |
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| May 13Wednesday | Topic Coming Soon |
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| May 6Wednesday | P21 NextLevel Leads — Continued Demo & Deep Dive Going deeper into the live CRM — AI conversation prep, opportunity management, rep accountability, and the full data integrity model. |
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| Apr 29Wednesday | P21 NextLevel Leads — AI Lead Gen & CRM Demo Mike Cali demoed a live, production AI-powered CRM — from lead capture to close. Hunter meets Gardener. |
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| Apr 22Wednesday | No Class — Tigers Game! ⚾ We're at Comerica Park tonight. See you next week for a very insightful session. |
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| Apr 15Wednesday | Your AI Business Brain — Trend Intel, Competitive Research & Mission Control Five Claude Co-work capabilities combined into an automated marketing & ops system. |
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| Apr 8Wednesday | No Class This Week |
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| Apr 1Wednesday | AI for Business — Build, Brand & Grow Website creation, task management, and building a brand identity with AI. Business owners attended — great session. |
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Explain confusing IRS letters, summarize Medicare plan options, prepare questions for advisors.
Step-by-step guides for settings, organizing digital photos, writing captions.
Write polite professional replies, spot phishing scams, identify official vs. fake messages.
Compare product features, summarize reviews, find the best prices without the overwhelm.
Help fill out public documents, check if messages look official, write event flyers.
What information to never share online, how to protect your identity and financial data.
We continue the agents series with a focus on real life. This class shows how to put AI agents to work on the things that actually matter — budgeting and financial questions, running retirement scenarios, building your career position, and turning entrepreneur ideas into concrete first steps. Six practical topics, one hour, completely free. Bring your laptop if you have one.
Introduced AI agents and how they differ from a plain chatbot. Agents can plan, execute multi-step tasks, use tools, and run workflows on your behalf — no coding needed. Live demos showed agents handling real tasks from start to finish. This was also the first class in our new one-hour format — concise, focused, and highly effective. Great energy in the room and lots of follow-up questions.
Covered AI video creation from the ground up — type a description and AI generates a complete, polished video. Walked through the leading tools including Sora, Veo 3.1, Runway, and CapCut AI, then edited the output and produced a finished advertisement from scratch. No camera, no editing software, no experience needed.
Continued the live CRM demo from the previous session. Went deeper on AI conversation prep with Claude, opportunity pipeline tracking, rep accountability scoring, and the full data integrity model. Strong turnout with lots of real questions from business owners in the room about applying these patterns to their own operations.
GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, and DeepSeek V4 all launched within days of each other — compressing the competitive cycle from annual milestones to continuous, weekly releases. Google introduced Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, delivering 2.5× faster responses at just $0.25 per million tokens. Google's TurboQuant technology can now compress AI memory usage by 6× with zero accuracy loss, meaning inference costs for frontier models are about to drop dramatically. Meanwhile, Novo Nordisk partnered with OpenAI to apply AI across its entire drug discovery, manufacturing, and commercial pipeline — targeting faster treatments for obesity and diabetes. Workforce data shows software developer employment for ages 22–25 has dropped nearly 20% since 2024 as AI exposure accelerates job displacement.
Google Cloud Next '26 dominated the week. Google launched the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform for large-scale business deployments, released its 8th-generation TPU chips designed specifically for agentic AI workloads, and dropped Gemma 4 — now the most capable open-source model byte-for-byte. Also new: Deep Research Max for advanced data analysis and a "Learn Mode" in Google Colab that turns Gemini into a personal coding tutor. On the science side, AI-related research publications in physical and life sciences jumped 26–28% year over year, and a University of Geneva team unveiled MangroveGS — an AI that predicts cancer metastasis with ~80% accuracy from gene expression patterns alone.
Class is off this week. We're catching the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park tonight. Back next Wednesday, April 29, with one of the most insightful sessions we've put together yet — don't miss it.
By combining five Claude Co-work capabilities, you can build an automated, high-level marketing and operations system. Here's what we covered:
Taking a week off after a packed session on April 1. Classes are resuming April 15 with a new, more structured format — specific topics announced each week. Stay tuned and register below to get notified.
Exciting session with business owners in the room. We covered how to use AI to create a full website, manage daily tasks and projects, and build a brand — logo, tone, messaging, and marketing copy — with AI doing the heavy lifting. Great energy, real conversations about putting this to work immediately.
This week's class covered how to turn AI skills into real income — freelance coding, prompt engineering, and automation services that businesses will pay for. Meanwhile in AI news: OpenAI quietly discontinues the Sora public API after 30 days notice, citing unsustainable video generation costs at scale.
Anthropic accidentally exposed its most capable model yet — insiders call it "a step change" in reasoning; an official release is weeks away. Google ships Gemini 3.1 Deep Think to Ultra subscribers and opens early API access. Google also drops Lyria 3 and Lyria 3 Pro — AI music generation models. And the Model Context Protocol crosses 97 million installs, cementing it as the backbone of agentic AI infrastructure. OpenAI adds Walmart shopping directly inside ChatGPT.
Really interesting session this week. We covered how anyone can move beyond basic AI prompting into cinematic prompting — crafting detailed, scene-level instructions that produce stunning images and video — and schematic prompting, where you describe what you want to build and AI generates working applications and code. You don't need to know how to code first. It helps, but you can absolutely learn as you go.
Google's Veo 3.1 launches in public preview — generate 4–8 second clips from text or up to three images. OpenAI drops Sora directly into ChatGPT for millions of users. Open-source strikes back: LTX 2.3 (22B params) generates 4K video at 50 FPS with synchronized audio in a single pass — free for commercial use.
Anthropic rolls out persistent memory to all Claude users — even the free tier. Claude now remembers your name, writing style, and ongoing projects across sessions. Also new: Computer Use on macOS lets Claude control apps, browsers, and files directly on your behalf. Off-peak usage limits double through March 27.
OpenAI releases GPT-5.4 — its most capable model yet — in three variants (Standard, Thinking, Pro) with a 1.05M token context window. Perplexity launches "Computer," an AI agent that autonomously executes complex workflows using 19 different models and can spawn subagents. Google Gemini adds "Fill with Gemini" to Docs and Sheets, generating table content, categorizing data, and pulling live info from Search.
The AI research community heavily pivots toward "model merging" — combining the capabilities of different specialized models without massive retraining — as the next major strategy to bypass the ceiling of traditional data scaling.
Anthropic's Claude Code gains the ability to translate legacy COBOL — powering 95% of global ATM transactions — into modern code at 99.9% accuracy. IBM stock drops 13% in one day. Meanwhile, legal battles intensify over always-listening wearables and real-time facial recognition.
Google DeepMind releases Gemini 3.1 Pro, Anthropic drops Claude Sonnet 4.6, and xAI releases Grok 4.20. Researchers at the University of New Hampshire use AI to discover 25 new high-temperature magnetic materials for rare-earth-free electric vehicles.
AI models identify signals for next-generation solid-state battery ion conduction. A University of Michigan team uses AI to compress cancer tumor stress-testing from 22 days down to under 5 minutes.
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.6 for complex multi-step autonomous logic. OpenAI drops GPT-5.3 Codex, achieving unprecedented scores on software engineering benchmarks and further automating high-level programming.
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.5 — a 1-trillion parameter open-source model that outperforms proprietary giants. Google rolls out Chrome's "Auto Browse" AI agent and Gemini 3's "Agentic Vision." Apple acquires Q.ai to improve whispered speech recognition.
OpenAI introduces Prism for automated scientific writing. NVIDIA launches Earth-2, the first open AI weather forecasting system. Microsoft debuts the Maia 200 accelerator to slash the cost of generating AI responses at scale.
Anthropic's tools begin handling autonomous project management, sparking debates about software engineering's future. EPFL researchers unveil software allowing organizations to run powerful AI models locally without cloud reliance.
OpenAI launches "ChatGPT Health," allowing users to securely connect medical records for personalized support. Amazon debuts a web-based AI assistant for Alexa, moving beyond voice-only smart speakers.
Enterprise leaders finalize 2026 budgets, marking an industry-wide shift from experimental GenAI chat tools to autonomous multi-agent systems designed to execute complex, multi-step workflows without human supervision.
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