Azure OpenAI Service provides access to OpenAI's powerful large language models such as GPT; the model behind the popular ChatGPT service. These models enable various natural language processing (NLP) solutions to understand, converse, and generate content. Users can access the service through REST APIs, SDKs, and Azure OpenAI Studio. In this course, you'll learn how to provision Azure OpenAI service, deploy models, and use them in generative AI applications.

Audience Profile

The audience for this course includes software developers and data scientists who need to use large language models for generative AI. Some programming experience is recommended, but the course will be valuable to anyone seeking to understand how the Azure OpenAI service can be used to implement generative AI solutions.

Job role: AI Engineer, Data Scientist

Prerequisites

Before starting this learning path, you should already have:

• Familiarity with Azure and the Azure portal.
• Experience programming with C# or Python. If you have no previous programming experience, we recommend you complete the Take your first steps with C# or Take your first steps with Python learning path before taking this course.

Course Modules

Introduction to Azure OpenAI Service

Get to know the connection between artificial intelligence (AI), Responsible AI, and text, code, and image generation. Understand how you can use Azure OpenAI to build solutions against AI models within Azure.

Learning objectives

In this module you'll learn how to:

• Describe Azure OpenAI workloads and access the Azure OpenAI Service
• Understand generative AI models
• Understand Azure OpenAI's language, code, and image capabilities
• Understand Azure OpenAI's responsible AI practices and limited access policies

Get started with Azure OpenAI Service

This module provides engineers with the skills to begin building an Azure OpenAI Service solution.

Learning objectives

By the end of this module, you'll be able to:

• Create an Azure OpenAI Service resource and understand types of Azure OpenAI base models.
• Use the Azure OpenAI Studio, console, or REST API to deploy a base model and test it in the Studio's playgrounds.
• Generate completions to prompts and begin to manage model parameters.

Build natural language solutions with Azure OpenAI Service

This module provides engineers with the skills to begin building apps that integrate with the Azure OpenAI Service.

Learning objectives

By the end of this module, you'll be able to:

• Integrate Azure OpenAI into your application
• Differentiate between different endpoints available to your application
• Generate completions to prompts using the REST API and language specific SDKs

Apply prompt engineering with Azure OpenAI Service

Prompt engineering in Azure OpenAI is a technique that involves designing prompts for natural language processing models. This process improves accuracy and relevancy in responses, optimizing the performance of the model.

Learning objectives

By the end of this module, you'll be able to:

• Understand the concept of prompt engineering and its role in optimizing Azure OpenAI models' performance.
• Know how to design and optimize prompts to better utilize AI models.
• Include clear instructions, request output composition, and use contextual content to improve the quality of the model's responses.