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Generative AI for Business with Microsoft Azure OpenAI

Generative AI for Business with Microsoft Azure OpenAI

Learn generative AI with code & no-code on Azure & OpenAI

Application closes 30th Apr 2024

  • Program Overview
  • Curriculum
  • Certificate
  • Tools
  • Projects
  • Faculty
  • Fees

Key Highlights of the Generative AI Program

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    AI-900 Training by Microsoft Certified
    Trainers (Optional)

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    Prompt Engineering without and with code

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    Azure Lab access with OpenAI Studio

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    Learn from experienced industry mentors

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    8+ hands-on case studies, 4 hands-on projects

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    Dedicated Program Manager and Academic Support

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    Get a Microsoft Applied Skill Badge

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    AI-900 Certification Exam Prep Sessions

Skills you will learn

  • Prompt Engineering
  • Using OpenAI API
  • Using Python SDK for Prompt Engineering
  • Microsoft Azure Cloud Services for AI

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Curriculum

This program, structured into four distinct modules, offers an in-depth understanding of Azure OpenAI and Generative AI. It begins with Module 1, which introduces the fundamentals of AI, Machine Learning (ML), Large Language Models (LLMs), and Prompt Engineering, along with an overview of Azure's OpenAI services. Module 2 focuses on the Python skills needed to work effectively with generative AI on a large scale. In Module 3, learners gain hands-on experience with the Azure OpenAI API key and Python SDK, exploring practical applications of Generative AI in tasks such as text classification and summarization. The final module, Module 4, prepares participants for the AI-900 Certification Exam. By the program's conclusion, participants will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to leverage Generative AI in various applications, ranging from generating content to crafting effective prompts.

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Module-1: Leveraging Generative AI for Business Applications

The module revolves around three core pillars - understanding Generative AI, exploring Azure OpenAI services, and mastering Prompt Engineering. In this enriching journey, you will delve into foundational concepts of AI, Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning (DL), Large Language Models (LLMs), and their applications across various industries. You will gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge generative tools and explore the vast capabilities of Azure OpenAI services. Lastly, you will learn the intricate art of Prompt Engineering, mastering the design and implementation of effective prompts without coding.

Week-1: ML Foundations for Generative AI

The outcome of this week is to understand foundational Machine Learning principles that enable Generative AI to perform tasks like creating new content, such as text and images, by learning from extensive datasets.

  • Mathematical Foundations of Generative AI
  • Understanding Machine Learning for Generative AI
  • Connect NLP fundamentals with advanced Generative AI applications

Week-2: Generative AI: Business Landscape & Overview

The outcome of this week is to understand the Generative AI Landscape, fundamentals, and possibilities for businesses to solve problems and create products.

  • Understanding Generative and Discriminative AI
  • A brief timeline of Generative AI
  • A peek into generative models
  • Deconstructing the behavior of a large language models
  • ML, DL, and GenAI applications in business
  • Hands-on Demonstration of popular tools (ChatGPT & DALL-E)

Week-3: Prompt Engineering without Code

The outcome of this week is to gain practical knowledge of Prompt Engineering and the ability to do it without code for various business use cases.

  • LLMs and the genesis of Prompting
  • How does the Attention Mechanism work? 
  • A brief history of the GPT model series
  • Accessing GPT through Azure
  • Designing prompts for business use cases using playground templates
  • Prompting techniques (Prompt templates, precise instructions, chain of thought prompting)
  • Ideating for prompts (prompt generation by induction, prompt paraphrasing)
  • Understand the concept of prompt engineering and its role in optimizing Azure OpenAI models' performance.
  • Learn the capabilities of DALL-E in the Azure openAI service and Use the DALL-E playground in Azure OpenAI Studio

Week-4: Project: Product Feedback Review & Sentiment Analysis

Problem Statement: Amazon needs an automated system that can efficiently analyze product reviews, extract critical information, and determine the sentiments expressed by customers. The solution should help the company gain insights into product performance and customer satisfaction.

Module-2: Python for Generative AI

This module prepares participants with vital Python skills for large-scale generative AI tasks, focusing on coding techniques, libraries, and frameworks essential for development, deployment, and scaling. Whether you’re a seasoned programmer looking to expand your AI knowledge or a complete beginner interested in the field, this module will set you up with the programming skills you need.
 

 

Week-5: Python for Prompt Engineering : Part-1

This week's goal is to swiftly deepen grasp and expertise in the basics of Python. Concentrating on these fundamental elements, we strive to establish a robust foundation for tasks related to Python.

  • Variables
  • Data types
  • Data Structures 
  • Conditions and Loops
  • Functions
  • Strings
  • Use natural language prompts to write code

Week-6: Python for Prompt Engineering: Part-2

The outcome from this week is to get up to speed on the Python concepts that are needed to automate prompt engineering at scale and understand the cost implications of using APIs.

  • Store text in Python
  • Edit, add, and delete text in Python
  • How to read files in Python
  • How to work with a database
  • Manipulate string columns

Week-7: Learning Break

Module-3: Designing Generative AI Solutions with Azure Open AI

This advanced module plunges deeper into the workings of LLMs, teaching you how to automate prompt engineering and other Generative AI applications at scale using Python. Learn to set up your Azure Open AI API key and import the Python library/SDK to work with various Generative AI models. Master the Completions API, ChatCompletions API, and Embeddings API, understanding their rates, limits, and pricing. The course then moves to practical applications of Generative AI in text classification and summarization, with hands-on exercises such as classifying medical records and assigning themes to finance news articles. Additionally, get a Microsoft Applied Skill Badge.

 

Week-8: Prompt Engineering at Scale

The outcome of this week is to learn how to use the Azure Open AI API key and the Python SDK to leverage Generative AI at scale for solving business problems

  • Getting set with your Azure Open AI key and Python SDK
  • Completions and Chat API
  • Kinds of APIs, Models, Token, Rate Limits and Pricing
  • Evaluating Generative AI Outputs
  • Generate completions to prompts and begin to manage model parameters
  • Include clear instructions, request output composition, and use contextual content to improve the quality of the model's responses

Week-9: Classification Tasks with Generative AI

The outcome of this week is to learn how to use Prompt Engineering to solve classification-type problems

  • Framing text classification tasks as Generative AI problem
  • Sentiment classification
  • Assigning themes to a body of text 
  • Aspect-based sentiment analysis

Week-10: Content Generation and Summarization with Generative AI

The outcome of this week is to learn how to use Generative AI for content generation tasks across various business problem spaces

  • Content generation using Generative AI 
  • Abstractive summarization
  • Text generation 

Week-11: Information Retrieval and Synthesis workflow with Gen AI

The outcome of this week is to learn how to setup an information retrieval and synthesis workflow on Azure or a local environment for a business use-case

  • Overview of advanced application of Generative AI 
  • Understand information retrieval and synthesis workflow using Azure Open AI
  • Effectively communicate the core concepts of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with the help of the LangChain package
  • Use Azure OpenAI API to generate responses based on your own data

Week-12: Final Project: Aspect-based Classification for Sentiment Analysis

Problem Statement: The objective of this problem statement is to use aspect-based classification for sentiment analysis to identify the aspects of a product or service that customers are most satisfied with and those that need improvement. This will help businesses understand their customers better and make data-driven decisions to improve their products or services. By improving customer satisfaction and loyalty, businesses can increase customer retention rates, reduce churn rates, and ultimately increase revenue.

Module-4: AI-900: Azure AI Fundamentals (Optional 4-week elective)

This module is designed to provide a foundational understanding of machine learning, AI concepts, and associated Microsoft Azure services. While Azure AI Fundamentals can be beneficial in preparing for Azure role-based certifications such as Azure Data Scientist Associate or Azure AI Engineer Associate, it's important to note that it is not a mandatory prerequisite for any of these certifications.

Week-13: Machine Learning workloads on Azure

Identify characteristics of standard machine learning workloads, comprehend foundational principles of ML, and become acquainted with prevalent machine learning methodologies

  • Identify regression, classification, and clustering machine learning scenarios
  • Identify features and labels in a dataset for machine learning
  • Describe the capabilities of Automated machine learning
  • Describe data and compute services for data science and machine learning
  • Describe model management and deployment capabilities in Azure Machine Learning

Week-14: Computer Vision workloads on Azure

Recognize various computer vision solution types and discover Azure tools for handling computer vision tasks.

  • Identify common types of computer vision solution
  • Identify features of optical character recognition solutions
  • Capabilities of the Azure AI Vision service
  • Capabilities of the Azure AI Face detection service

Week-15: Natural Language workloads on Azure

Identify features of typical NLP workload scenarios and explore Azure tools and services applicable to NLP workloads.

  • Identify features and uses for key phrase extraction
  • Identify features and uses for entity recognition
  • Identify features and uses for language modeling
  • Identify features of common NLP Workload Scenarios
  • Identify Azure tools and services for NLP workloads

Week-16: Generative AI workloads on Azure

Focus on recognizing features of generative AI solutions and understanding the capabilities offered by the Azure OpenAI Service.

  • Identify features of generative AI solutions
  • Identify capabilities of Azure OpenAI Service

Earn a Certificate from Microsoft Azure

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Industry-relevant syllabus

Learn Top In-Demand Tools

Gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge tools and explore the vast capabilities of Generative AI

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    Azure AI Services

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    Python

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    Azure OpenAI Service

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    Azure OpenAI Studio

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    Azure OpenAI Chat API

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    Azure OpenAI Playground

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    Azure OpenAI Completion API

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    GPT-3.5-Turbo

Data sets from the industry

Work on Industry-Relevant Projects

Find below an indicative list of hands-on projects during the course of the program

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Product Feedback Review & Sentiment Analysis

The objective of this project is to create a prompt template that performs sentiment analysis on product reviews. The model should extract relevant information, such as product names, reviewer names, review ratings, review descriptions, and sentiment (positive or negative), to assist the company in understanding customer feedback better.
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Aspect-based Classification for Sentiment Analysis

The objective of this project is to use aspect-based classification for sentiment analysis to identify the aspects of a product or service that customers are most satisfied with and those that need improvement. This will help businesses understand their customers better and make data-driven decisions to improve their products or services. By improving customer satisfaction and loyalty, businesses can increase customer retention rates, reduce churn rates, and ultimately increase revenue.
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Improving operational efficiency and customer satisfaction

ExpressWay Logistics grapples with challenges in delivery efficiency and customer satisfaction, struggling with parcel management and maintaining a skilled workforce. To address these issues, the company is focusing on a comprehensive strategy that leverages advanced technology and strategic planning, with a particular emphasis on analyzing customer sentiment across digital platforms. This approach is aimed at enhancing operational efficiency and elevating the quality of service.
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Extract insights from customer feedback

Within the highly competitive realm of online retail, the significance of customer feedback cannot be overstated in its influence on user experience optimization and business expansion. As a product analyst at a prominent e-commerce company specializing in items such as footwear, electronic gadgets, and groceries, your task is to harness the power of Generative AI to convert unstructured customer feedback into valuable insights. This initiative will aid in informing strategic planning, refining the platform, and securing a satisfying purchase experience for consumers.

Meet Your Faculty and Mentors

Learn from highly skilled professionals in the ML field who have engineered Generative AI solutions across industry verticals & have real-world, hands-on work experience

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    Dr. Abhinanda Sarkar

    Faculty Director, Great Learning

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    Connor Hagen

    Lead Architect, Microsoft Azure OpenAI & AI Co-Innovation Labs

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    Dr. Pavankumar Gurazada

    Faculty - Business and AI, Great Learning

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    Vinicio DeSola

    Senior Data Scientist, Aspen Capital

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    Anuj Saini

    AI Research Scholar,Université de Montréal

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    Davood Wadi

    Artificial Intelligence Researcher, HEC Montréal

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    Fred Premji

    Principal AI/ML Engineer, OPTMAL

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    Hassan Saidinejad

    Data Scientist, Intact

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Program Fee

Program Fees: 1,700 USD

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Benefits of learning with us

  • 16-week online learning
  • Microsoft Azure Lab access with OpenAI Studio
  • Prompt Engineering without and with code
  • 8+ hands-on case studies, 4 hands-on projects
  • Certificate of Completion from Microsoft and Great Learning
  • Get a Microsoft Applied Skill Badge

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