AI-102: Develop AI solutions in Azure

Module 1: Create and Manage Azure Cognitive Services

Prior to accessing any of the Cognitive Services functionality on Azure, you will need to create a Cognitive Services resource. Using the various services (Speech, Computer Vision etc.), requires, at a minimum, an access key and a service endpoint URL. The information is required for authorization of applications that will be accessing these services. You will create either a single-service resource or a multi-service resource, depending on the services you access.

Module 2: Implement Computer Vision Solutions

Learn how to integrate visual AI in your applications using Azure Computer Vision. Detect and identify faces or objects in images and video, perform object detection, classify images, and implement custom vision solutions.

Module 3: Implement Language Analysis Solutions

Learn how to implement natural language functionality in your applications through integration of the Language Understanding service. Gain insights into your users' intentions through text analytics features such as sentiment analysis and language detection. Identify important information in text files with entity and key phrase extraction capabilities.

Module 4: Implement Knowledge Mining Solutions

Azure Cognitive Search provides a cloud-based solution for indexing and querying a wide range of data sources and creating comprehensive and high-scale search solutions. Lean to implement a solution in which the documents are indexed and made easy to search.

Module 5: Implement Conversational AI Solutions

Use the Microsoft Bot Framework and the Bot Framework Composer to design and create conversational AI solutions.

Module 6: Implement Azure Open AI Services

We will explore how Azure OpenAI Service provides access to OpenAI's powerful language models including GPT-4, GPT-35-Turbo, Embeddings model series and others. These models can be easily adapted to your specific task including but not limited to content generation, summarization, semantic search, and natural language to code translation. Users will learn how to access the service through REST APIs, Python SDK, or the web-based interface in the Azure OpenAI Studio.

Module 7: Prompt engineering

In this module you will learn different techniques for prompt engineering and prompt flow for pre-trained models like GPT.

We will explore models like GPT-3.5, and GPT-4 from OpenAI that are prompt-based. With prompt-based models, the user interacts with the model by entering a text prompt, to which the model responds with a text completion. This completion is the model’s continuation of the input text.

While these models are extremely powerful, their behaviour is also very sensitive to the prompt. This makes prompt construction an important skill to develop.

We will explore Azure Machine Learning prompt flow. Azure Machine Learning prompt flow is a development tool designed to streamline the entire development cycle of AI applications powered by Large Language Models (LLMs). As the momentum for LLM-based AI applications continues to grow across the globe, Azure Machine Learning prompt flow provides a comprehensive solution that simplifies the process of prototyping, experimenting, iterating, and deploying your AI applications.

Module 8: Fine-tuning and working with your own data

In this module you will learn different techniques for customizing the pre-trained models like GPT for fine-tuning, embedding, working with your own data and using content filters for detecting and preventing the output of harmful content.

You will learn how to customize the pre-trained models through REST APIs, Python SDK, or the web-based interface in the Azure OpenAI Studio.

Azure OpenAI on your data enables you to run supported chat models such as GPT-35-Turbo and GPT-4 on your data. Running models on your data enables you to chat on top of and analyse your data with greater accuracy and speed. By doing so, you can unlock valuable insights that can help you make better business decisions, identify trends and patterns, and optimize your operations. One of the key benefits of Azure OpenAI on your data is its ability to tailor the content of conversational AI.

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AI-102: Develop AI solutions in Azure