Course: Generative AI on Azure

In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has gained significant attention for its ability to create intelligent solutions. This path focuses on leveraging the Azure cloud platform to explore and harness the power of generative AI. In this course, you'll explore how generative AI works and types of generative AI models. Then, you'll be introduced to Azure services for generative AI, including Azure OpenAI service, Azure Bot service, and Azure Machine Learning. Finally, you'll learn about privacy and policy considerations for generative AI, chatbot creation, personalized marketing content, new product development, and training and tuning generative AI models.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being harnessed everywhere today for a myriad of different practical applications. Microsoft Azure's OpenAI service is a key component in the development of AI apps in Azure and has gained significant attention for its ability to create intelligent solutions. In this course, you'll learn about Azure OpenAI service, including models, practical uses, and AI content generation principles with OpenAI. Then, you'll explore integration with Azure OpenAI, text and question answering, OpenAI vs. other generative AI services, and OpenAI pricing. Finally, you'll dig into limitations of OpenAI and what the future holds for Azure OpenAI.

The Azure Cloud platform's generative artificial intelligence (AI) solutions are robust and mature. Encompassing multiple services and supporting rich integration with other Azure services, it's relatively easy to get up and running with generative AI solutions using Azure. In this course, you'll dive deep into generative AI with Azure OpenAI, beginning with an introduction to Azure OpenAI architecture, an overview of OpenAI Studio, and a hands-on demonstration of how to customize models in Azure OpenAI. Then you'll learn how to build a custom app, fine-tune OpenAI models, and deploy models with Azure OpenAI. You'll explore text generation, translation, question answering, image generation, and troubleshooting. Finally, you'll discover Azure OpenAI service integrations, AI Search (formerly Cognitive Search), privacy and compliance issues, and quotas and collaboration with Azure OpenAI.

The chatbot is a popular example of how generative artificial intelligence (AI) is being used today, in all industries and environments. In this course, you will learn about the Azure Bot service and its features, including how generative AI can be leveraged to build intelligent and interactive chatbot applications. You will begin with an introduction to Azure Bot service, generative models and bots, and a high-level discussion of how to build a basic bot. Then you will explore ethical issues surrounding AI-driven bots, find out how to get started with bot creation in Copilot Studio, and learn how to train and deploy models for conversational language understanding (CLU) projects. Next, you will discover Azure Cognitive Services and scaling, and monitoring and troubleshooting bot performance. Finally, you will examine data security, usage auditing, and cost tracking.