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Building AI Applications with Microsoft Semantic Kernel

You're reading from Building AI Applications with Microsoft Semantic Kernel Easily integrate generative AI capabilities and copilot experiences into your applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835463703

Length 252 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

ChatGPT

Concepts

GPT/LLMs

Author (1):

Lucas A. Meyer

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Introduction to Generative AI and Microsoft Semantic Kernel FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Introducing Microsoft Semantic Kernel

3. Chapter 2: Creating Better Prompts

4. Part 2: Creating AI Applications with Semantic Kernel

5. Chapter 3: Extending Semantic Kernel

6. Chapter 4: Performing Complex Actions by Chaining Functions

7. Chapter 5: Programming with Planners

8. Chapter 6: Adding Memories to Your AI Application

9. Part 3: Real-World Use Cases

10. Chapter 7: Real-World Use Case – Retrieval-Augmented Generation

11. Chapter 8: Real-World Use Case – Making Your Application Available on ChatGPT

12. Index

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Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to create native functions and combine them into plugins. You also learned how to create semantic functions and all the details of their parameters, and how to combine them into plugins.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to generate images from Semantic Kernel, and we will also learn how to use the functions covered here with slight modifications to create a pipeline that can process many documents.

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Authors (1)

Lucas A. Meyer

Lucas A. Meyer

Lucas A. Meyer is a Computer Scientist and Financial Economist with over two decades of experience in technology. Lucas joined Microsoft in 2002 to work with databases in Finance, joined Amazon in 2020 to work with fraud detection and prevention, and returned to Microsoft in 2022 as a Principal Research Scientist in the Microsoft's AI for Good Lab, where he works with Large Language Models (LLMs) and the Microsoft Semantic Kernel daily. Lucas' first NLP project, released in 2016, was a chatbot that streamlined several corporate finance operations and won the Adam Smith Award from London's Treasury Today. Lucas has an MBA and an M.Sc. in Finance from the University of Washington in Seattle.

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