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Generative AI for Beginners
Eighteen lessons on building real applications with generative AI: prompting, chat and search apps, RAG, function calling, agents and fine-tuning. Each lesson pairs a video with code on GitHub.
18 video lessons · 4 h 23 min · taught by Microsoft Cloud Advocates
Lesson 1 of 18 · 11 min
Introduction to Generative AI and LLMs
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What you will learn
- Choose between LLMs and explain their trade-offs
- Write and refine prompts with techniques such as few-shot and chain-of-thought
- Build chat, search and image-generation applications
- Ground answers in your own data with retrieval augmented generation (RAG)
Before you start
- Prerequisites
- Basic Python or TypeScript. The code needs an OpenAI or Azure account.
- Cost
- Free and open source (MIT licence). Running the samples may incur API charges.
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