The Azure AI Foundry and Semantic Kernel Fundamentals is an introduction to understanding the conceptual foundations of infusing your application with AI using the Semantic Kernel development kit. Materials from this workshop can serve as a foundation for building your own AI infused solutions with Semantic Kernel.
This workshop consists of eight challenges and is designed to encourage learning and research. If you want a deeper understanding of how to implement an AI solution but have little or no experience with OpenAI or Semantic Kernel then this workshop is for you.
We recommend to host this as a team based activity where students work in groups of 3-5 people to solve the challenges. Each challenge is designed to be completed in 30-90 minutes.
This workshop is designed for individuals who want to gain practical experience in working with Azure AI Foundry and Semantic Kernel. By applying this knowledge, you will be able to integrate AI into your own applications.
Participants will learn how to:
- Build a simple chat using Semantic Kernel and C#
- Add plugins and enable auto calling to create Planners
- Import existing APIs using OpenAPI
- Implement Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Document Chunking
- Grounding AI
- Working with Image generation
- Multi-Agent workflows
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Challenge 00: Prerequisites - Prepare your workstation to work with Azure.
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Challenge 01: Azure AI Foundry Fundamentals - Deploy an Azure AI Foundry Model, practice prompt engineering.
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Challenge 02: Semantic Kernel Fundamentals - Connect your OpenAI model, test your application.
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Challenge 03: Plugins - Create Semantic Kernel plugins, enable auto function calling, explore planners.
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Challenge 04: Import Plugin using OpenAPI - Import an API using an OpenAPI specification.
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Challenge 05: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) - Implement document chunking & embedding, enhance AI responses with external sources.
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Challenge 06: Responsible AI: Exploring Content Filters in Azure AI Foundry - Configure, test, and customize content filters.
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Challenge 07: Image Generation using DALL-E - Work with text-to-image models, build an image generating plugin.
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Challenge 08: Multi-Agent Systems - Create a multi-agent conversation, implement in Semantic Kernel.