🚨 BREAKING: Microsoft just dropped an 18-episode series called "Generative AI for Beginners". Ideal for begi...

🚨 BREAKING: Microsoft just dropped an 18-episode series called "Generative AI for Beginners".

Ideal for beginners, developers, and AI enthusiasts looking to build a solid foundation.

Here’s a breakdown (Save this👇):🧵 

Episode 1: Introduction to Generative AI and LLMs

– Carlotta Castelluccio introduces Generative AI and large language models, explaining their inner workings and how they are revolutionizing industries (with a focus on education)​

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/generative-ai-for-beginners/introduction-to-generative-ai-and-llms-generative-ai-for-beginners 

Episode 2: Exploring and Comparing Different LLMs

– Carlotta Castelluccio and Pablo Lopes explore various types of large language models, their use cases across industries, and how businesses can harness their potential​

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/generative-ai-for-beginners/exploring-and-comparing-different-llms-generative-ai-for-beginners 

Episode 3: Using Generative AI Responsibly

– Explains why responsible AI is crucial for generative applications, covering how to ensure AI outputs are fair and non-harmful, and steps to improve the responsible use of AI​

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/generative-ai-for-beginners/using-generative-ai-responsibly-generative-ai-for-beginners 

Episode 4: Understanding Prompt Engineering Fundamentals

– Nitya Narasimhan walks through the fundamentals of prompt engineering, teaching how to craft effective prompts and iterate on them to improve generative AI results​

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/generative-ai-for-beginners/understanding-prompt-engineering-fundamentals-generative-ai-for-beginners 

Episode 5: Creating Advanced Prompts

– Chris Noring delves into advanced prompt-engineering techniques to optimize prompts and improve AI response quality, demonstrating these methods with real-world examples​

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/generative-ai-for-beginners/creating-advanced-prompts-generative-ai-for-beginners 

Episode 6: Building Text Generation Applications

– Covers the core concepts of text generation using OpenAI and shows how to build a text-generation application step by step, adjusting parameters like prompt, temperature, and tokens for desired output​

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/generative-ai-for-beginners/building-text-generation-applications-generative-ai-for-beginners 

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Episode 7: Building Chat Applications

– Jasmine Greenaway demonstrates how to efficiently build and integrate AI-powered chat applications into existing systems, including customization, fine-tuning, and monitoring strategies​

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/generative-ai-for-beginners/building-chat-applications-generative-ai-for-beginners 

Episode 8: Building Search Apps (Vector Databases)

– Dave Glover shows how to build semantic search apps using vector embeddings to index and query text, retrieving relevant video segments from an education startup's library.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/generative-ai-for-beginners/building-search-apps-vector-databases-generative-ai-for-beginners 

Episode 9: Building Image Generation Applications

– Chris Noring and Pablo Lopes explain how to generate images from text descriptions using models like DALL-E and Midjourney, and walk through building an image-generation app step by step​

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/generative-ai-for-beginners/building-image-generation-applications-generative-ai-for-beginners 

Episode 10: Building Low-Code AI Applications

– Someleze Diko showcases Microsoft Power Platform's low-code tools with generative AI, featuring Copilot and AI Builder, to build AI-powered apps and workflows with little coding.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/generative-ai-for-beginners/building-low-code-ai-applications-generative-ai-for-beginners 

Episode 11: Integrating External Applications with Function Calling

– Korey Stegared-Pace discusses function calling in LLMs, explains implementing an OpenAI function call, and shows integration into applications to enhance AI capabilities.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/generative-ai-for-beginners/integrating-external-applications-with-function-calling-generative-ai-for-beginners 

Episode 12: Designing UX for AI Applications

– Bethany Jepchumba emphasizes designing AI app experiences by prioritizing user trust and transparency, understanding user needs, and fostering collaboration and feedback.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/generative-ai-for-beginners/designing-ux-for-ai-applications-generative-ai-for-beginners 

Episode 13: Securing Your Generative AI Applications

– Discusses AI security, outlining risks and threats to generative AI and offering methods and best practices to secure these systems.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/generative-ai-for-beginners/securing-your-generative-ai-applications-generative-ai-for-beginners 

Episode 14: The Generative AI Application Lifecycle

– Pablo Lopes examines the AI lifecycle, emphasizing the shift from ML Ops to LLM Ops with tools for developing, deploying, monitoring, and improving AI solutions.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/generative-ai-for-beginners/the-generative-ai-application-lifecycle-generative-ai-for-beginners 

Episode 15: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and Vector Databases

– Bethany Jepchumba covers grounding LLMs with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), explaining its basics, benefits, vector database setup, and app integration.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/generative-ai-for-beginners/retrieval-augmented-generation-rag-and-vector-databases-generative-ai-for-beginners 

Episode 16: Open Source Models and Hugging Face

– Explores open-source large language models. Korey Stegared-Pace contrasts these with proprietary versions and guides on using and fine-tuning open models on platforms on Hugging Face or Azure AI Studio.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/generative-ai-for-beginners/open-source-models-and-hugging-face-generative-ai-for-beginners 

Episode 17: AI Agents: LLMs using tools or frameworks for action. Korey Stegared

- Pace defines AI agents, reviews four agent frameworks with unique features, and discusses using agent-based approaches in generative AI.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/generative-ai-for-beginners/ai-agents-generative-ai-for-beginners 

Episode 18: Fine-Tuning LLMs

– Nitya Narasimhan explains fine-tuning pre-trained language models to enhance task-specific performance. This final episode covers what fine-tuning is, when it’s useful, how to do it, and its limitations.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/generative-ai-for-beginners/finetuning-llms-generative-ai-for-beginners 

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