Course Overview This course introduces fundamental concepts related to artificial intelligence (AI), and the services in Microsoft Azure that can be used to create AI solutions.
Description
Course Overview
This course introduces fundamental concepts related to artificial intelligence (AI), and the services in Microsoft Azure that can be used to create AI solutions. It teaches a mix of AI concepts and technology skills that are considered foundational to a successful career implementing AI solutions on Microsoft Azure.
Who Should Attend?
This course is for aspiring technology professionals at the beginning of their career in AI solution development. Some knowledge of Python coding syntax and programming techniques is useful. Additionally, knowledge of core cloud concepts, including cloud storage, cloud compute, and cloud-based authentication and authorization is recommended.
Course Prerequisites
There are no required prerequisites. Success in this course is supported by:
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Experience using computers and the internet
Interest in AI workloads and applications
A basic understanding of math (interpreting charts, simple probability)
Familiarity with fundamental programming concepts (helpful but not required)
Course Outline
Introduction to AI concepts
Generative AI and agents
Text and natural language
Speech
Computer vision
Information extraction
Responsible AI
Module assessment
Introduction to generative AI and agents
Large language models (LLMs)
Prompts
AI agents
Module assessment
Introduction to natural language processing concepts
Tokenization
Statistical text analysis.
Semantic language models
Module assessment
Introduction to AI speech concepts
Speech-enabled solutions
Speech recognition
Speech synthesis
Module assessment
Introduction to computer vision concepts
Computer vision tasks and techniques
Images and image processing
Convolutional neural networks
Vision transformers and multimodal models
Image generation
Module assessment
Introduction to AI-powered information extraction concepts
Overview of information extraction
Optical character recognition (OCR)
Field extraction and mapping
Module assessment
Get started with AI in Azure
Understand Azure
Developing AI apps on Azure
Microsoft Foundry for AI
Using Microsoft Foundry endpoints
Get started with generative AI and agents in Azure
Generative AI models
Using a generative AI model
Creating an agent
Get started with text analysis in Azure
Azure Language
Azure Language SDK
Azure Language MCP
Module assessment
Get started with speech in Azure
Speech recognition
Speech synthesis
Creating a speech-capable agent
Module assessment
Get started with computer vision in Azure
Multimodal models for image analysis
Image generation models
Video generation models
Module assessment
Get started with AI-powered information extraction in Azure
Extract information from documents
Extract information from audio and video
Module assessment