Hey @Jillanne_Venable I think you hit on a great first use for AI - have it coach you and teach you some basic coding. Current models of Chat-focused AI are excellent for bouncing ideas around with especially if the human is the one throwing in the creative side, and the AI is the one helping you find the practical experiences and knowledge needed to realize that creativity.
Interestingly enough, your keen curiosity, and your doubts and uncertainties, are equally positive things in learning about AI. One of the absolute most important things with current AI is the ability to check your assumptions, and question whether the prompt you gave has other ways of being interpreted, or how much of the ‘human feeling’ answers one can get are our own unavoidable tendency to anthropomorphism. We can ascribe human motivations to a car refusing to start, so there is no doubt at all that we absolutely can and will sometimes read a lot more into an AI response than was truly there.
As for a lack of education, well, that’s really not a big deal. After all, that fixes itself as you learn, and the genuine truth is that AI is a learning curve for everyone. Even those who built the latest AIs will tell you how much they don’t know, how much of what they do is an experiment, to learn from. You may well have seen it before, but if not, do check out the thread about Sam Altman (OpenAI CEO) talks about promises, risks, and fears where the very people who brought us ChatGPT talk about their own doubts, questions, and uncertainties.