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Santa Maria Lodge #220 · Warren, MI

AI for
Everyone

Simple, hands-on classes for community members who want to understand and use AI in everyday life. No tech skills required — just curiosity.

Schedule Weekly Wednesdays
Time 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Location 28024 Bunert Rd, Warren
Cost Free
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Next Class:
Wednesday, April 15

Completed · Apr 1 AI for Business — Build, Brand & Grow

Exciting session with business owners in the room. We covered how to use AI to create a website from scratch, manage daily tasks and projects, and build a brand identity — logo, tone, messaging — all with AI doing the heavy lifting. Great energy in the room.

No Class · April 8

Taking a week off. See you back on April 15.

Coming Up · Next Class
Topic Announced Soon — Stay Tuned
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 · 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Classes are becoming more structured with specific topics each week. Register below and we'll email you the topic as soon as it's confirmed. All skill levels welcome.

Bring your laptop if you have one — working on your own device makes it hands-on. No laptop needed to attend.

Doors open at 5:45 PM  ·  Class begins at 6:00 PM sharp
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 · 6–8 PM
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✓ Free to attend   ✓ No experience needed   ✓ Bring your laptop

Questions? Call (586) 300-9429  ·  Small group, personal attention

Every Wednesday · 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Upcoming Class Schedule

Classes are now structured with a specific topic each week. All sessions are free, held at Santa Maria Lodge #220, 28024 Bunert Road, Warren, MI.

Date Topic Status
Apr 1Wednesday
AI for Business — Build, Brand & Grow
Website creation, task management, and building a brand identity with AI. Business owners attended — great session.
Completed
Apr 8Wednesday
No Class This Week
Off
Apr 15Wednesday
Topic Coming Soon
Register below — we'll email you the topic as soon as it's set.
Next Class
Apr 22Wednesday
Topic Coming Soon
Upcoming
Apr 29Wednesday
Topic Coming Soon
Upcoming
May 6Wednesday
Topic Coming Soon
Upcoming
What We Cover

Practical AI for Real Life

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Taxes & Medicare

Explain confusing IRS letters, summarize Medicare plan options, prepare questions for advisors.

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Smartphones & Photos

Step-by-step guides for settings, organizing digital photos, writing captions.

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Email & Scams

Write polite professional replies, spot phishing scams, identify official vs. fake messages.

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Shopping & Research

Compare product features, summarize reviews, find the best prices without the overwhelm.

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Forms & Documents

Help fill out public documents, check if messages look official, write event flyers.

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Privacy & Safety

What information to never share online, how to protect your identity and financial data.

Understanding the Revolution

The AI Evolution:
From Origins to Today

2026 Present
The Year of Agentic AI
Apr 15 Class Recap
Week 16 · Class Recap
Your AI Business Brain — Trend Intel, Competitive Research & Mission Control

By combining five Claude Co-work capabilities, you can build an automated, high-level marketing and operations system. Here's what we covered:

  • Trend Intelligence with X & Grok — Use X and Grok to gather real-time trend data scored by custom metrics like recency and velocity, so you're always ahead of the curve.
  • Competitive Intelligence via Apify — Scrape competitor social media performance and market pricing using Apify's custom connectors — no expensive API subscriptions needed.
  • NotebookLM as Your AI's Second Brain — Install the NotebookLM skill to give Claude near-infinite memory and deep research capability without burning through tokens.
  • Building the NotebookLM Skill with Claude Code — Because Claude Co-work runs in a sandboxed environment, you use Claude Code to extract, optimize, and embed your browser cookies into a specialized file Co-work can read.
  • Mission Control Dashboard — Aggregate all your intelligence and business numbers — website traffic, revenue attribution, and more — into a centralized, AI-powered dashboard that updates daily to reduce cognitive load and sharpen decision-making.
Apr 6–12 Week 15
Week 15
No Class April 8 — Next Up April 15

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.

Apr 1 Class Recap
Week 14 · Class Recap
AI for Business — Build, Brand & Grow

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.

Mar 30–Apr 5 Week 14
Week 14 · News
Start Your AI Side Business

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.

Mar 23–29 Week 13
Week 13 · This Week's News
Anthropic's Leak, Gemini Deep Think & MCP Hits 97M Installs

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.

Mar 25 Class Recap
Week 13 · Last Class
From Prompter to Builder: Cinematic & Schematic Prompting

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.

Mar 23–29 Week 13
Week 13 · AI Video
AI Video Goes Mainstream

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.

Mar 16–22 Week 12
Week 12
Claude Remembers You & Controls Your Computer

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.

Mar 9–15 Week 11
Week 11
GPT-5.4, Perplexity Computer & Gemini Workspace

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.

Mar 2–8 Week 10
Week 10
Model Merging Gains Traction

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.

Feb 23–Mar 1 Week 9
Week 9
COBOL Crisis & Privacy Battles

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.

Feb 16–22 Week 8
Week 8
The Mid-February Model Blitz

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.

Feb 9–15 Week 7
Week 7
Physical Science Breakthroughs

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.

Feb 2–8 Week 6
Week 6
Coding AI Dominates

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.

Jan 26–Feb 1 Week 5
Week 5
Open Source Upset & Agentic Browsing

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.

Jan 19–25 Week 4
Week 4
Scientific Writing, Weather AI, and Cheaper Inference

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.

Jan 12–18 Week 3
Week 3
Workspace Automation & Private AI

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.

Jan 5–11 Week 2
Week 2
Health AI & Smart Speakers Evolve

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.

Dec 29–Jan 4 Week 1
Week 1
The Agentic Pivot Begins

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.

2020–25 5 Years
The Generative AI Explosion
2020–2025
  • The LLM Era: OpenAI releases GPT-3 and ChatGPT, triggering a global arms race in consumer AI and broad public adoption unlike anything seen before.
  • Multimodal Reality: Models evolve beyond text. Midjourney, DALL-E, and Sora revolutionize image and video generation. Google launches the natively multimodal Gemini family.
  • The Open-Source Surge: Meta (Llama) and DeepSeek democratize highly capable models, proving open-weights can compete with massive proprietary systems.
  • Reasoning Models: By late 2025, the focus shifts from "predicting the next word" to structured, multi-step logical reasoning — the foundation for autonomous agents.
2010s 1 Decade
The Deep Learning Revolution
2010–2019
  • The ImageNet Moment (2012): AlexNet crushes computer vision benchmarks using deep neural networks and GPUs, kicking off the Deep Learning boom.
  • Natural Language Matures: Google introduces Word2Vec (2013), then the Transformer architecture (2017) — shifting NLP from clunky sequential processing to highly parallel, context-aware understanding.
  • Creative & Strategic AI: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) allow AI to create realistic images, while AlphaGo (2016) conquers the wildly complex board game Go.
90s–00s 2 Decades
Machine Learning & Big Data
1990–2009
  • Statistical Dominance: The field shifts from hard-coded rules to statistical machine learning — algorithms that learn patterns from data without explicit programming.
  • World Champions (1997): IBM's Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov at chess, proving AI can out-calculate human masters in structured environments.
  • The Data Explosion (2009): The ImageNet dataset provides the massive labeled data needed to train complex neural networks, setting the stage for everything that follows.
60s–80s Origins
Foundations & The First Winter
1960–1989
  • The Dawn of Logic: Early AI focuses on symbolic logic and rule-based systems — programs like ELIZA for natural language and MYCIN for medical diagnosis.
  • The First Winter: Progress stalls in the late 1970s. Limited computing power and the inability of early neural networks to handle complex problems bring funding and optimism crashing down.
  • The Expert System Boom: The 1980s bring a brief resurgence as corporations adopt "expert systems" — programs with thousands of human-coded rules to automate specific business logic.
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