tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37762981406395635002024-03-16T01:12:56.628+00:00Dr Victoria Holt: life, the universe and everythingChaos, complexity, curiosity and database systems. A place where research meets industryVictoria Holthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678450274216640396noreply@blogger.comBlogger758125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776298140639563500.post-33661818975340421342024-03-08T09:00:00.002+00:002024-03-08T09:00:36.695+00:00Data Toboggan Slide Preparation: Ask The Fabric Experts at SQLBits<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-SsiLZPCuC42Ye-5j8gRJxgLFUZphdaVf07dd1KyiX3nyJuUnkpAMM4VOBekFPiDjPVOxLkGxmDY8jZUakMC9toeIzwX2KVtosh196y5IbHX9gqlHZeczuAoy-_63wvcN6ePGDvaI6hlL3wPBH4WKOZWa1VgrWO0QLD8EYsY2nE61h9hcAYpcX6DYFYc" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="495" data-original-width="881" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-SsiLZPCuC42Ye-5j8gRJxgLFUZphdaVf07dd1KyiX3nyJuUnkpAMM4VOBekFPiDjPVOxLkGxmDY8jZUakMC9toeIzwX2KVtosh196y5IbHX9gqlHZeczuAoy-_63wvcN6ePGDvaI6hlL3wPBH4WKOZWa1VgrWO0QLD8EYsY2nE61h9hcAYpcX6DYFYc=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We are really excited to announce that the <a href="https://www.datatoboggan.co.uk/">Data Toboggan</a> user group Slide Preparation will be holding its first ever 'in-person' event at #SQLBits thanks to their amazing community ethos.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Date: Thursday 21 March 2024</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Details: <a href="https://www.meetup.com/data-toboggan/events/299548360/">https://www.meetup.com/data-toboggan/events/299548360/</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div>If you're going to be at SQL Bits for the conference anyway just come along, but if you're not, there's a 'User Group Only' option on the SQL Bits event registration page - just select 'User Group Attendee - Thursday Evening', fill in your details, and select the Data Toboggan event on the next page. Registration is at <a href="https://events.sqlbits.com/2024">https://events.sqlbits.com/2024</a></div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We’re thrilled and thankful to SQL Bits for letting us put on our first ever in-person meeting ! Join us for an ‘Ask Us Anything’ panel session - we’ve got some great contributors lined up and ready to answer your questions on anything #MSFabric, from Data Engineering to Governance, we’ve got you covered. </div><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p>Victoria Holthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678450274216640396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776298140639563500.post-13186243762399296932024-03-08T08:50:00.001+00:002024-03-08T09:04:11.533+00:00International Womens Day 2024<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjt5b8YBXJCqwzB7MN-wJKsnp08D_fG4hIdaztOFHQO_4fiCyYQ0BreN1k88uil56tiMhOW61_-QtH5tDRoHRoMYm3A88THSFJ095LXOGw4f-NSA5WliVHSDSNjFvhu06glDoo-6DD9LQZng4QIyC9oJ5bzYnHfDMUFRU2jJA_vioHXiwZOIrk0xXA12kU" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjt5b8YBXJCqwzB7MN-wJKsnp08D_fG4hIdaztOFHQO_4fiCyYQ0BreN1k88uil56tiMhOW61_-QtH5tDRoHRoMYm3A88THSFJ095LXOGw4f-NSA5WliVHSDSNjFvhu06glDoo-6DD9LQZng4QIyC9oJ5bzYnHfDMUFRU2jJA_vioHXiwZOIrk0xXA12kU=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><a href="https://www.internationalwomensday.com/">International Women’s Day 2024</a>, celebrates women’s achievements, progress, and equality. The official campaign theme for International Women’s Day 2024 is 'Inspire Inclusion'. When we inspire others to understand and value women’s inclusion, we create a better world.</p><p><b>Historical Roots</b></p><p>The first International Women’s Day (IWD) was held in March 1911.</p><p>IWD transcends borders, organizations, and groups—it’s a day of collective global activism.</p><p>World-renowned feminist Gloria Steinem once emphasized that the struggle for equality belongs to all who care about human rights.</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Investing in Women: Accelerating Progress</b></p><p>The overarching theme for 2024 is 'Invest in women: Accelerate progress'. It underscores the importance of creating an inclusive society and empowering women. IWD celebrates the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women.</p><p>The idea of IWD traces back to the 1908 labour movement in New York. Women garment workers marched, demanding better pay, shorter working hours, and voting rights. The movement was spearheaded by the Socialist Party of America.</p><p>Just a few of the remarkable women who have made significant contributions to science and technology:</p><p><b>Ada Lovelace</b></p><p>Born in 1815, she was the world’s first computer programmer. Collaborated with Charles Babbage on the Analytical Engine, creating the first algorithm intended for implementation on this early mechanical computer.</p><p><b>Grace Hopper</b></p><p>She was a trailblazing computer scientist who invented the compiler. Her work led to the development of the high-level programming language COBOL, which revolutionized software development and paved the way for modern programming languages.</p><div><b>Tiera Guinn</b></div><p>A 21-year-old aerospace major at MIT. Working on building a powerful rocket for NASA. Inspiring others with her determination and vision.</p><p><b>Marie Curie</b></p><p>Pioneered research in radioactivity. The first woman to win the Nobel Prize (jointly with her husband) in 1903.</p><p><b>Elizabeth Blackwell</b></p><p>First woman to graduate from medical school in the US. She founded a medical school for women in England.</p><p><b>Dr. Mae C. Jemison</b></p><p>First African American woman in space. She holds degrees in chemical engineering and medicine. She served as a Peace Corps medical officer.</p><p><b>Caroline Herschel</b></p><p>Caroline Lucretia Herschel born in 1750 was a German-born British astronomer, whose most significant contributions to astronomy were the discoveries of several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel–Rigollet, which bears her name</p><p><b>Williamina Fleming</b></p><p>Cracked the secrets of the universe with computation.</p><p>Worked at the Harvard College Observatory in the late 1800s. These women have left an indelible mark on science and technology, inspiring generations to come.</p>Victoria Holthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678450274216640396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776298140639563500.post-80506490442873492862024-03-01T16:48:00.003+00:002024-03-14T21:12:46.567+00:00Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric<p>Mirroring in Fabric was <a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-mirroring-in-microsoft-fabric?ft=Announcements:category">announced in November</a> as coming soon. When i first heard the term I immediately thought of the deprecated SQL Server Database mirroring term. However the summary from Ignite shared on the <a href="https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/7875/microsoft-ignite-2023-announcements-for-microsoft-fabric/">MSSQLTips site</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivk0OgXYhH9TZTwIevUsy5aNHPHSIo8Zu4xOTDYTfCWena5zzOYZO73J5WLZ737qhmj2GLfZlQlUDo33wvZl611qzDVhJ5nt2v49kka7G09AmiC6qkMGh8ZyIR97Nlw2ynLiiU57IWkihLmzghBcu2LMhaECf2iS_JL0atP-2w8Noyrlmx_VZSyqXXTOg/s900/7875_microsoft-ignite-2023-announcements-microsoft-fabric-3.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="484" data-original-width="900" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivk0OgXYhH9TZTwIevUsy5aNHPHSIo8Zu4xOTDYTfCWena5zzOYZO73J5WLZ737qhmj2GLfZlQlUDo33wvZl611qzDVhJ5nt2v49kka7G09AmiC6qkMGh8ZyIR97Nlw2ynLiiU57IWkihLmzghBcu2LMhaECf2iS_JL0atP-2w8Noyrlmx_VZSyqXXTOg/w640-h344/7875_microsoft-ignite-2023-announcements-microsoft-fabric-3.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>There are a few capabilities announced so far</p><p><b>Real-Time Data Replication</b></p><p>No complex setup or ETL processes. Data is replicated reliably and in real-time.</p><p>An initial snapshot captures the data, followed by continuous synchronization with every transaction (inserts, updates, deletes).</p><p>Mirroring uses Change Data Capture (CDC) technology, transforming it into appropriate Delta tables and landing it in OneLake.</p><p>Intelligent logic ensures efficient replication without unnecessary compute usage.</p><p><b>Access and Management</b></p><p>Any database can be accessed and managed centrally within Fabric.</p><p>By providing connection details, your database becomes instantly available as a Mirrored database.</p><p>Familiar database editors allow seamless management.</p><p><b>Data Warehousing Simplified</b></p><p>Each Mirrored database includes default data warehousing experiences via a SQL Analytics Endpoint.</p><p>Whether a SQL developer or a citizen developer, querying is easy using the T-SQL editor with full Intellisense or the visual query editor.</p><p><b>What's next</b></p><p>Initially the article proposes Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL DB and Snowflake will be able to use mirroring. You can read more <a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-mirroring-in-microsoft-fabric?ft=Announcements:category">here.</a></p>Victoria Holthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678450274216640396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776298140639563500.post-78274350089703993492024-02-21T08:29:00.001+00:002024-02-21T08:29:00.127+00:00EU AI Act, the first extensive AI regulation globally, is approved<p>The European Union (EU) has been working on a new legal
framework that aims to regulate the development and use of artificial
intelligence (AI) in the EU. The proposed legislation, the Artificial
Intelligence (AI) Act, focuses on ensuring that AI systems are trustworthy,
respect human values and rights, and support the EU single market.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The AI Act introduces a risk-based approach to classify AI
systems into four categories: unacceptable, high-risk, limited-risk, and
minimal-risk. Unacceptable AI systems are those that pose a clear threat to the
safety, livelihoods, or rights of people, such as social scoring or mass
surveillance. High-risk AI systems are those that are used in critical sectors,
such as healthcare, education, or law enforcement, and have a significant
impact on people’s lives, such as medical devices, recruitment tools, or facial
recognition. Limited-risk AI systems are those that pose some risks to people’s
rights or expectations, such as chatbots, online advertising, or deepfakes1.
Minimal-risk AI systems are those that pose no or negligible risks to people,
such as video games, spam filters, or smart appliances.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The AI Act imposes different obligations and requirements
for each category of AI systems. Unacceptable AI systems are banned from being
developed, sold, or used in the EU. High-risk AI systems must comply with
strict rules on data quality, transparency, human oversight, accuracy,
security, and accountability. They must also undergo a conformity assessment
before being placed on the market or put into service. Limited-risk AI systems
must provide clear and adequate information to users about their nature,
purpose, and capabilities. Minimal-risk AI systems are subject to voluntary
codes of conduct and best practices.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The AI Act also establishes a governance structure and a
cooperation mechanism for the implementation and enforcement of the rules. The
European Commission will be responsible for monitoring and updating the list of
high-risk AI systems and sectors, as well as adopting delegated and
implementing acts. The European AI Board will be an independent advisory body
that will provide guidance and recommendations to the Commission and the member
states. The national competent authorities will be in charge of supervising and
sanctioning the compliance of AI systems with the rules, as well as ensuring
cross-border cooperation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The AI Act is a landmark proposal that aims to make the EU a
global leader in trustworthy and human-centric AI. However, it also faces some
challenges and criticisms from various stakeholders, such as industry, civil
society, and other countries. The AI Act will need to balance the interests and
concerns of different actors, as well as adapt to the fast-changing and
evolving nature of AI<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There is a pyramid of <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/armand-ruiz_the-eu-ai-act-the-first-extensive-ai-regulation-activity-7140671816645156864-XR3F?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop">risk</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9gVM9CThfl1TGlqBwopdPDQ6-mockmNoQRbhE71HfokaBKL8NXrCieLb_KAiM6is35btxSBFuUy7WsWJfygadw6tbi8U7qouQWEQeII0KUd69iC8Fj2oqZF0IZv45EKjQZyQrqdBgywBmlKS10IZKLImmv6K5JPRoTJDbHvBdr8fK2w0SZUmjuZobBZI" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="529" data-original-width="940" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9gVM9CThfl1TGlqBwopdPDQ6-mockmNoQRbhE71HfokaBKL8NXrCieLb_KAiM6is35btxSBFuUy7WsWJfygadw6tbi8U7qouQWEQeII0KUd69iC8Fj2oqZF0IZv45EKjQZyQrqdBgywBmlKS10IZKLImmv6K5JPRoTJDbHvBdr8fK2w0SZUmjuZobBZI=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">References<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/06/european-union-ai-act-explained/">https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/06/european-union-ai-act-explained/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67668469">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67668469</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://cset.georgetown.edu/article/the-eu-ai-act-a-primer/">https://cset.georgetown.edu/article/the-eu-ai-act-a-primer/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.finextra.com/the-long-read/847/what-is-the-eu-ai-act-understanding-europes-first-regulation-on-artificial-intelligence">https://www.finextra.com/the-long-read/847/what-is-the-eu-ai-act-understanding-europes-first-regulation-on-artificial-intelligence</a><o:p></o:p></p><p></p>Victoria Holthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678450274216640396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776298140639563500.post-84695470293339265652024-02-15T17:58:00.000+00:002024-02-15T17:58:09.882+00:00Fundamentals of Generative AI<p> Generative AI is a branch of artificial intelligence that focuses on creating new content or data from scratch, such as images, text, music, or code. Generative AI models learn from existing data and use it to generate novel and realistic outputs that are not part of the original data. Some of the applications of generative AI include:</p><p>Image synthesis: Generative AI can create realistic images of faces, landscapes, animals, or objects that do not exist in the real world. </p><p>Text generation: Generative AI can produce natural language texts on various topics, such as stories, poems, essays, or code. </p><p>Music composition: Generative AI can compose original music in different genres, styles, and moods. </p><p>Data augmentation: Generative AI can enhance or expand existing data sets by creating new samples that are similar but not identical to the original ones. This can help improve the performance and robustness of machine learning models. For example, generative AI can create new images of handwritten digits or new sentences of natural language.</p><p>The main challenge of generative AI is to ensure that the generated outputs are both diverse and realistic, meaning that they cover a wide range of possibilities and resemble the real data. To achieve this, generative AI models often use two types of techniques:</p><p>Probabilistic models: These are models that learn the probability distribution of the data and sample from it to generate new outputs. For example, variational autoencoders (VAEs) are probabilistic models that encode the data into a latent space and decode it back into the original space, adding some noise in the process to create variations.</p><p>Adversarial models: These are models that consist of two components: a generator and a discriminator. The generator tries to create outputs that fool the discriminator, while the discriminator tries to distinguish between real and fake outputs. The two components compete with each other and improve over time. For example, generative adversarial networks (GANs) are adversarial models that use neural networks as the generator and the discriminator.</p><p>Generative AI is a fascinating and rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence that has many potential benefits and applications for society. However, it also poses some ethical and social risks, such as misuse, deception, or bias. Therefore, it is important to develop and use generative AI models <span style="font-family: inherit;">responsibly and transparently, with respect for human values and rights. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">To learn more about the <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/fundamentals-generative-ai/">Fundamental of Generative AI</a> , Microsoft Learn has a great course</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It also covers what is the Azure OpenAI service. This being a <span style="color: #161616;">Microsoft's cloud solution for deploying, customizing, and hosting large language models. There is a brief overview of CoPilot.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #161616; font-family: "Segoe UI", SegoeUI, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxs79kE5yU1yX-gWaFjqm2HTHPZU6dHEyblwlUltny7juv2rfvQvPmdxlUK31sIRISxvJ7YuuyLxYP7UvEXLgt3uWxI_1j3nfonos-q17veyvJWIIBf2hlLhKut0NRftwZBJOhfRwluzpLAt46fz1PQL77d-8QyenAddVkl5_uXCartxzmv8sb7zy2Y8w" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxs79kE5yU1yX-gWaFjqm2HTHPZU6dHEyblwlUltny7juv2rfvQvPmdxlUK31sIRISxvJ7YuuyLxYP7UvEXLgt3uWxI_1j3nfonos-q17veyvJWIIBf2hlLhKut0NRftwZBJOhfRwluzpLAt46fz1PQL77d-8QyenAddVkl5_uXCartxzmv8sb7zy2Y8w=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Victoria Holthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678450274216640396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776298140639563500.post-68148965475226304162024-02-01T22:17:00.001+00:002024-02-01T22:24:29.027+00:00Data Toboggan - Purview in Microsoft Fabric<p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Excited to be speaking at Data Toboggan </span></p><p>Event Date: 3rd February 2024 </p><p>Register now for free: <a href="https://bit.ly/DT24-Register">https://bit.ly/DT24-Register</a></p><p></p><p>Agenda: <a href="https://bit.ly/DT24-Agenda">https://bit.ly/DT24-Agenda</a></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Abstract</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Microsoft Fabric comes with Purview for data governance. What does that mean and how can it help with managing your data estate. This session looks to connect the dots between the old and new and explains, which of the apps exist in Fabric.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5PnWPVh7LAIEJ13sQT_uhckqc_xlhXYyBu4qSp4vOH71NFCanQH4TAmzSuaDWHr3bYdWi67IlvzhjFfh-jYtz17hgFfdHA9gvdfY87C-cmtsDr5-jRMLcWa9jSXI7d5BBZ9zoi9BPNm8Whv5Rf7-Lc6yKY-Z427nooG2WcBsgUPta78m1Xl0HofjY7To/s1082/Screenshot%202024-02-01%20215837.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="616" data-original-width="1082" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5PnWPVh7LAIEJ13sQT_uhckqc_xlhXYyBu4qSp4vOH71NFCanQH4TAmzSuaDWHr3bYdWi67IlvzhjFfh-jYtz17hgFfdHA9gvdfY87C-cmtsDr5-jRMLcWa9jSXI7d5BBZ9zoi9BPNm8Whv5Rf7-Lc6yKY-Z427nooG2WcBsgUPta78m1Xl0HofjY7To/w640-h364/Screenshot%202024-02-01%20215837.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Victoria Holthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678450274216640396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776298140639563500.post-76346430897065596442024-02-01T22:10:00.002+00:002024-02-01T22:24:01.980+00:00Data Toboggan Winter Edition 2024<p>Please join us on Saturday for the #DataToboggan winter edition. We have 32 speakers, 3 tracks, including an AI track. Lots of fun and learning. We also have the amazing Knee-deep in Tech not to be missed and a keynote from Kim Manis</p><p>Event Date: Saturday 3rd February 2024 </p><p>Register now for free: <a href="https://bit.ly/DT24-Register">https://bit.ly/DT24-Register</a></p><p>Agenda: <a href="https://bit.ly/DT24-Agenda">https://bit.ly/DT24-Agenda</a></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGaxBPHs9E-f7JRMrOyDWW0VOuL2JjogL4xsKl757djv4U0v8FMiQBO-P7YLzVRyELcOi7m9a2YRwgoa5wmYWquLK3GYstzrYr6WbTikMzOBBljEhnyfGa-iZxxBi-u7DXUAEK214qsp8MgMDDwmcxOY6Onv2h5kIiDs2iuc1EISRVBdyi5UM69YhA9IA/s1920/Data%20Toboggan%202024%20Winter%20Edition%20-%20Bramberg.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGaxBPHs9E-f7JRMrOyDWW0VOuL2JjogL4xsKl757djv4U0v8FMiQBO-P7YLzVRyELcOi7m9a2YRwgoa5wmYWquLK3GYstzrYr6WbTikMzOBBljEhnyfGa-iZxxBi-u7DXUAEK214qsp8MgMDDwmcxOY6Onv2h5kIiDs2iuc1EISRVBdyi5UM69YhA9IA/w640-h360/Data%20Toboggan%202024%20Winter%20Edition%20-%20Bramberg.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMFJry7H9IjXAX5OBDXWFJox_bhLi6rQAuz69nq5St0GTFIZFPIeHJFdL9framPILQBlKrVrZDSwefr0aleP7wdl24N6DLDE9j5Zdjc5la0Yt0mTRahxtp0XKeMW1rywOLlZ0X0Wtm0EhQgD7Gig6Q3OB6gIK8OwkD8XwAwvqA1wh6wbzv2_yLzUECynA/s1920/Data%20Toboggan%202024%20Winter%20Edition%20-%20Pradaschier.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMFJry7H9IjXAX5OBDXWFJox_bhLi6rQAuz69nq5St0GTFIZFPIeHJFdL9framPILQBlKrVrZDSwefr0aleP7wdl24N6DLDE9j5Zdjc5la0Yt0mTRahxtp0XKeMW1rywOLlZ0X0Wtm0EhQgD7Gig6Q3OB6gIK8OwkD8XwAwvqA1wh6wbzv2_yLzUECynA/w640-h360/Data%20Toboggan%202024%20Winter%20Edition%20-%20Pradaschier.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8c-yARATpaZ0GH87tMRIKL4xe1nLMkwavI_6Q_I716nFY_4yK8XRAGQWR55dMzYnWLtOzyAmiKOXqWk5DLt9-jxkw7nhlkjm6sf0Hu9abTTK5RMYvn-e2Rj61wVSr2wjpBk77M-pY_MRFuXdM_pyRN1P7VZTfdvDC_AAiDGacQCsIXiiTH1kWzxyxWos/s1920/Data%20Toboggan%202024%20Winter%20Edition%20-%20Rigi%20Kaltbad.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8c-yARATpaZ0GH87tMRIKL4xe1nLMkwavI_6Q_I716nFY_4yK8XRAGQWR55dMzYnWLtOzyAmiKOXqWk5DLt9-jxkw7nhlkjm6sf0Hu9abTTK5RMYvn-e2Rj61wVSr2wjpBk77M-pY_MRFuXdM_pyRN1P7VZTfdvDC_AAiDGacQCsIXiiTH1kWzxyxWos/w640-h360/Data%20Toboggan%202024%20Winter%20Edition%20-%20Rigi%20Kaltbad.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">#azuresynapse #microsoftfabric #synapseanalytics #AI #artificialintelligence #copilot #openai </div><p></p>Victoria Holthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678450274216640396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776298140639563500.post-16762538298474846342024-01-31T07:09:00.006+00:002024-02-01T07:24:56.578+00:00Generative AI framework for Government <p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The UK government has released their </span><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65a806bf94c997000daeb98e/6.8558_CO_Generative_AI_Framework_Report_v7_WEB.pdf"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">generative AI</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Segoe UI, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65a806bf94c997000daeb98e/6.8558_CO_Generative_AI_Framework_Report_v7_WEB.pdf">framework</a> created by </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Segoe UI, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">the Central Digital and Data Office V1.0</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Segoe UI, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">. This is public sector guidance with a focus on </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Large Language Models (LLMs). </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The framework outlines ten principles:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Segoe UI, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Principle 1: You know what generative AI is and what its limitations are</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Principle 2: You use generative AI lawfully, ethically and responsibly</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Principle 3: You know how to keep generative AI tools secure</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Principle 4: You have meaningful human control at the right stage</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Principle 5: You understand how to manage the full generative AI lifecycle</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Principle 6: You use the right tool for the job</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Principle 7: You are open and collaborative</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Principle 8: You work with commercial colleagues from the start</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Principle 9: You have the skills and expertise that you need to build and use generative AI</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Principle 10: You use these principles alongside your organisation’s policies and have the right assurance in place</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Segoe UI, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">It defines Generative AI as a form of AI '</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">– a broad field which aims to use computers to emulate the products of human intelligence or to build capabilities which go beyond human intelligence'</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjx8yEsQqtYaNFJ33V5jhHg1g1DNNOWMUjQna_XYp9WyCmUnwdwLf2OIO_4tqioKzDm7b_-h4lvUwWI0PDY4wKVcz-98kzQFdEhZdcLp3ONMC34jWKecCfs815lF_ItenmSUlgda6io1VYT3o02XN6UQWDBybLRv4yJmtaZGdme6b7fGwmtxeALpT0wXmo" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="332" data-original-width="636" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjx8yEsQqtYaNFJ33V5jhHg1g1DNNOWMUjQna_XYp9WyCmUnwdwLf2OIO_4tqioKzDm7b_-h4lvUwWI0PDY4wKVcz-98kzQFdEhZdcLp3ONMC34jWKecCfs815lF_ItenmSUlgda6io1VYT3o02XN6UQWDBybLRv4yJmtaZGdme6b7fGwmtxeALpT0wXmo=w640-h334" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then within Generative AI how those public LLM's fit within the field</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUixeNO7nAb3iUWjyeGFrDGtc9wHw2T83mh7ZxBL5r5Xx9nDlY-Cw0lXY1hc1vWmJTDGniznYZZ3mV2MdMfn6yzGPpbMR2zJOlnW7SOwzOPmRH_jJlPq31vCnbM3LiOVrvJjaJNpmNqtP6twE_FdOe39RiA1ejk4Xk3-y52tQP8EAZ7Q8MBHmkFBNNwnM" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="664" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUixeNO7nAb3iUWjyeGFrDGtc9wHw2T83mh7ZxBL5r5Xx9nDlY-Cw0lXY1hc1vWmJTDGniznYZZ3mV2MdMfn6yzGPpbMR2zJOlnW7SOwzOPmRH_jJlPq31vCnbM3LiOVrvJjaJNpmNqtP6twE_FdOe39RiA1ejk4Xk3-y52tQP8EAZ7Q8MBHmkFBNNwnM=w640-h318" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">The framework has lots of information to draw on from </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #242424; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">advocating for lawful, ethical, and responsible usage to addressing the the challenges of accuracy, bias and environmental impact. Transparency and human control are paramount going forward. You can <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65a806bf94c997000daeb98e/6.8558_CO_Generative_AI_Framework_Report_v7_WEB.pdf">read more here</a>.</span></span></div><p></p>Victoria Holthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678450274216640396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776298140639563500.post-75608664336496763892024-01-23T20:24:00.003+00:002024-01-31T20:30:47.648+00:00Purview in Microsoft Fabric<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I am pleased to be speaking at Data Toboggan Winter Edition 2024 on Saturday 3rd February.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Register now for free: <a href="https://bit.ly/DT24-Register">https://bit.ly/DT24-Register</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Agenda: <a href="https://bit.ly/DT24-Agenda">https://bit.ly/DT24-Agenda</a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>My Abstract</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Microsoft Fabric comes with Purview for data governance. What does that mean and how can it help with managing your data estate. This session looks to connect the dots between the old and new and explains, which of the apps exist in Fabric.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaIGQRGXWK0JXTqhI3YRW0GrEen3nwWz5C3v9lFuBPGXomnqYa4XNTpw520CQlkgUuv_L0BgHvTkOf-8Ck5DCtbTT8zbDLJ_QJP6wltX3aWiDeytC11tjtj_5bSwMgZC9g8dot972QR8kBeoL6BOydSJglponA0QshNX8a_yHWDJ4aFSUNY6gxThDJcxg/s1080/Victoria_Holt_-_Purview_in_Microsoft_Fabric_611937.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaIGQRGXWK0JXTqhI3YRW0GrEen3nwWz5C3v9lFuBPGXomnqYa4XNTpw520CQlkgUuv_L0BgHvTkOf-8Ck5DCtbTT8zbDLJ_QJP6wltX3aWiDeytC11tjtj_5bSwMgZC9g8dot972QR8kBeoL6BOydSJglponA0QshNX8a_yHWDJ4aFSUNY6gxThDJcxg/w400-h400/Victoria_Holt_-_Purview_in_Microsoft_Fabric_611937.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Victoria Holthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678450274216640396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776298140639563500.post-88397630026494833892024-01-10T22:49:00.000+00:002024-01-10T22:49:24.320+00:00 AI Builder Prompting Guide<p>Microsoft have released the <span style="background-color: white;">AI Builder Prompting Guide, This is another useful tool to help with</span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> Prompt engineering.</span></p><p>The guide explains 'Prompts are how you build custom generative AI capabilities in Power Platform, like summarizing a body of text, drafting a response, or categorizing an incoming email. Think of prompts as a way of building custom GPT functions using only natural language'</p><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">This comprehensive guide details the art of prompt engineering, providing insights on how to create effective prompts to maximize AI capabilities. </span><div><br /></div><div>There are 6 common uses for prompts: </div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Classification of text</li><li>Sentiment analysis</li><li>Rewriting content</li><li>Summarize information</li><li>Extract information</li><li>Drafting a response</li></ul></div><div><div><span style="background-color: white;">From summarization to sentiment analysis, this is guide helps explain prompts and strategies. It also talks about Chain-of-thought prompting and how to lead AI step by step in reasoning processes. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">What to do when writing prompts:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white; font-size: 10.5pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidqBTove6D-iQngdF3_8YGuRXfRcTJU2qhEEOzX-26RH6DmDet7QQfQ2OfyDvXJy0-wa8araNbDjYj_VkJDIMfQJS9ZBJLLdw0BBvzu4Sz-urDd4nQ75q2juRfwUcT9kZsnsqqnI5ObFA7-Cu68gGLKhC8zraC0iPMvkt7jpD6h83bL7HLuFhrTzg5u8g" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="662" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidqBTove6D-iQngdF3_8YGuRXfRcTJU2qhEEOzX-26RH6DmDet7QQfQ2OfyDvXJy0-wa8araNbDjYj_VkJDIMfQJS9ZBJLLdw0BBvzu4Sz-urDd4nQ75q2juRfwUcT9kZsnsqqnI5ObFA7-Cu68gGLKhC8zraC0iPMvkt7jpD6h83bL7HLuFhrTzg5u8g=w640-h446" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white; font-size: 10.5pt;">The guide covers the important discussions that need to be had relating to the importance of responsible AI. </span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 10.5pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 10.5pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEq5kPU87er3NolHOeOd-Ap5QGuGGWFbjNLFzdlZi2ItbaOXbWIem8PAe3_5eI23x4rD9MaoqIxdEGdMXinxxwDeD7yHj1H8DQC7ABviFRsKcyRQ73qiQdqCH8ya1vcge7EwuUR3WuYu0zDvdV8ciwfznSNICWB17eavymk5zAndrsCFOeQi1xr6PW_5E" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="569" data-original-width="656" height="555" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEq5kPU87er3NolHOeOd-Ap5QGuGGWFbjNLFzdlZi2ItbaOXbWIem8PAe3_5eI23x4rD9MaoqIxdEGdMXinxxwDeD7yHj1H8DQC7ABviFRsKcyRQ73qiQdqCH8ya1vcge7EwuUR3WuYu0zDvdV8ciwfznSNICWB17eavymk5zAndrsCFOeQi1xr6PW_5E=w640-h555" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br />Link to the guide:<span class="white-space-pre"> </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><a href="https://lnkd.in/e9zKQiDy" target="_self"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2255775</span></a></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;"><br />Documentation:<span class="white-space-pre"> </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><a href="https://lnkd.in/eZS8xbbm" target="_self"><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background: white;">https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ai-builder/create-a-custom-prompt</span></a></span></div></div>Victoria Holthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678450274216640396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776298140639563500.post-28072083619633000442024-01-07T22:43:00.002+00:002024-01-07T22:43:09.732+00:00 Microsoft Fabric Adoption Roadmap<p><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">The </span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/guidance/fabric-adoption-roadmap">Microsoft Fabric adoption roadmap</a> is a series of articles to help strategically with actions and considerations. This roadmap looks at more that just technological side. It considers growing that data culture across people, process and technology. </span>It covers these areas:</p><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Data Culture</li><li>Executive sponsorship</li><li>Business Alignment</li><li>Content ownership and management</li><li>Content delivery scope</li><li>Centre of Excellence</li><li>Governance</li><li>Mentoring and user enablement</li><li>Community of practice</li><li>User Support</li><li>System oversight</li><li>Change management</li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div>Data culture in an organisation is critical to success and will greatly influence the outcomes. Ownership and governance guide how day to day activity takes place. Above all any adoption requires executive sponsorship to drive business success. </div><div><br /></div><div>Read more about the <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/guidance/fabric-adoption-roadmap">adoption roadmap</a>. <br /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><a class="app-aware-link" data-test-app-aware-link="" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=microsoftfabric&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7141127518807404544" style="background-color: var(--artdeco-reset-link-background-color-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: normal; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); word-break: normal;"><span class="visually-hidden" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); display: block; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); height: 1px; line-height: inherit; margin: -1px; outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-wrap: nowrap; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); width: 1px;">hashtag</span><br /></a></span><div><span class="white-space-pre" color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="white-space-pre" color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwSs6lOsvcdbvsxeDEFCsEcwGia9eyDeqfmdtuTDSTszD_mH3v93aYpw30T_Xfc8G0Iyu5j0FJJFe9DhWIS8rmgOuZIjkld5LYdncJ8vY1wocRz1uiNLEgueng5kOdAsW18UyDrz04zY2lGpViqiK-awgd1zUnVWZJce_7BfkxguN9p9FzhLdIuqlt7-Y" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="865" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwSs6lOsvcdbvsxeDEFCsEcwGia9eyDeqfmdtuTDSTszD_mH3v93aYpw30T_Xfc8G0Iyu5j0FJJFe9DhWIS8rmgOuZIjkld5LYdncJ8vY1wocRz1uiNLEgueng5kOdAsW18UyDrz04zY2lGpViqiK-awgd1zUnVWZJce_7BfkxguN9p9FzhLdIuqlt7-Y=w592-h640" width="592" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></div></div>Victoria Holthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678450274216640396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776298140639563500.post-67473842483889881972024-01-03T16:36:00.004+00:002024-01-03T16:36:00.142+00:00Copilot Different Experiences<p><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Adopt, extend and build <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-cloud/dev/copilot/overview">Copilot experiences</a> across the Microsoft Cloud. Copilot uses Large Language Models (LLMs) . There are various level of expertise and effort required for each type. As with each type they connect to different data sources and require different level of customisations. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">A few terms</span></p>
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Token – when text is processed in large AI model, it is divided into the smallest units, these are called tokens. So tokens are the finest granularity in natural language progressing for these large language models</span></span></p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); margin: 0cm; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span face=""Segoe UI",sans-serif" style="color: black;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Prompt - The text you send to Azure OpenAI Service as an API call. This text is then input into the AI model.</span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">
Metaprompts – part of the orchestration layer. A set of instructions that are passed to copilot that are sent to the model on every turn of conversation and where safety tuning happens.
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It is how you ask a Copilot to do something. It is like summarizing and explaining what to do. Microsoft have created a set of resources to guide you through the art and science of it. </p><p><a href="https://adoption.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/#business-user">The full guide on the art and science of prompting</a>. There are useful featured prompts for generating ideas, help me write an email etc.</p><p>The Prompting do's and don't can be <a href="https://adoption.microsoft.com/files/copilot/Prompt-dos-and-donts-one-pager.pdf">found here</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga7zaA4XmfVPQ-Vzp5kZDFf984CbISIpFBag4tXLSg4oTeYBVEfiACiWNE0xbm97t1NDe4BJu3G7JFQyeZSxWipA64rUKjgqVXZaEzVrJ8_Wc71RiQ862aXBefpz8nkJdRN1xI9U8MHS4g9nzhWziq92Sjbm2Dl8YEC4310ccqx9KPPw1VAzKB-WoicXo/s720/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20164357.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="614" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga7zaA4XmfVPQ-Vzp5kZDFf984CbISIpFBag4tXLSg4oTeYBVEfiACiWNE0xbm97t1NDe4BJu3G7JFQyeZSxWipA64rUKjgqVXZaEzVrJ8_Wc71RiQ862aXBefpz8nkJdRN1xI9U8MHS4g9nzhWziq92Sjbm2Dl8YEC4310ccqx9KPPw1VAzKB-WoicXo/w546-h640/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20164357.png" width="546" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Victoria Holthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678450274216640396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776298140639563500.post-8285952155223273932023-12-11T20:53:00.001+00:002023-12-13T21:58:43.859+00:00Responsible AI - Metaprompt engineering <p>Metaprompt design is crucial for generative AI applications. </p><p>The process of grounding or retrieval augmented generation (RAG) is the process of grounding your model on relevant context. This grounding can significantly improve the overall accuracy and relevance of the model outputs. </p><p>Azure AI Studio can help you quickly and securely ground models on structured, unstructured, and real-time data, including data within Microsoft Fabric.</p><p>'A metaprompt, or system message, is a set of natural language instructions used to guide an AI system’s behavior (do this, not that)'. (see below)</p><p>The grounding data should be used by the metaprompt and enforce rules that help stop harmful content generation or user manipulations like jailbreaks or prompt injections.</p><p>Summary of responsible AI best practices for a metaprompt</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYEKG-1tuNXBHE8v71Au8Kac3IH4vuhHEAFZeaRXOpqLRgt5HIakG9PhYRT8w13ICJwFxXRd_grggwiRPwXh_9TQtA5EtqQrTV9vm7LZ7gUDM7SA73nFEifANLbNTz7Q_ymsc-Tllc4_yJnOLE9itUuHEYaG53-DZQEKnjo4EQs5inSqa_1bCttGHB9UY/s1092/Picture3.webp" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="1092" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYEKG-1tuNXBHE8v71Au8Kac3IH4vuhHEAFZeaRXOpqLRgt5HIakG9PhYRT8w13ICJwFxXRd_grggwiRPwXh_9TQtA5EtqQrTV9vm7LZ7gUDM7SA73nFEifANLbNTz7Q_ymsc-Tllc4_yJnOLE9itUuHEYaG53-DZQEKnjo4EQs5inSqa_1bCttGHB9UY/w640-h358/Picture3.webp" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/concepts/advanced-prompt-engineering?pivots=programming-language-chat-completions">ProMetaprompt engineering techniques</a></p><p><a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/infuse-responsible-ai-tools-and-practices-in-your-llmops/">Infuse responsible AI tools and practices in your LLMOps</a></p><p>Watch the 45-minute Introduction to <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-to-azure-ai-studio/">Azure AI Studio course</a> on Microsoft Learn.</p>Victoria Holthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678450274216640396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776298140639563500.post-37625112907187328752023-12-09T21:02:00.001+00:002023-12-13T21:14:39.679+00:00Copilot Studio implementation guide<p>I came across this excellent resource, the Microsoft Copilot Studio implementation guide. It covers</p><p>a 360-degree review of your project covering</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Project overview</li><li>Architecture overview</li><li>Language</li><li>AI capabilities</li><li>Integrations & channels</li><li>Security, monitoring & governance</li><li>Application lifecycle management</li><li>Analytics & KPIs</li><li>Fit-gap & top requests</li><li>Dynamics 365 Omnichannel </li></ul><p></p><div>Guidance and best practices</div><p>Reference architecture examples</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFcP48Mg-4CV8smGzepOOowIO6BfvRFg35KJdBXb2mnd6BCABb24Shol5FW5PPei4ZOjIJK0W4ci4nwvlPdb6qkRIWKfZRpNUkp9F_UykhZL_f2Pg0uPxMSz9odzPz2KwelP5CHp7gXHieKV10ZscVVmTA_teSyyZb7eD43TLNwKw9K9MvEvM4ysQFPSQ/s1068/Screenshot%202023-12-13%20210526.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="1068" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFcP48Mg-4CV8smGzepOOowIO6BfvRFg35KJdBXb2mnd6BCABb24Shol5FW5PPei4ZOjIJK0W4ci4nwvlPdb6qkRIWKfZRpNUkp9F_UykhZL_f2Pg0uPxMSz9odzPz2KwelP5CHp7gXHieKV10ZscVVmTA_teSyyZb7eD43TLNwKw9K9MvEvM4ysQFPSQ/w640-h358/Screenshot%202023-12-13%20210526.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Download it from <a href="https://lnkd.in/d5h-binr">https://lnkd.in/d5h-binr</a> </p>Victoria Holthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678450274216640396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776298140639563500.post-84703907671856315642023-12-08T21:26:00.001+00:002023-12-13T22:02:17.387+00:00Bath Azure User Group - December Meetup<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6a1TSZGRSkLraV8a47UbJPEIC4xAD1g0ucbGncmcyke2u7aGUYBVdq4HsxZMfjAMMsijdWAXWsp5rvkYe9o2BJnn9IXRTSfsvvqgNWyMn0gjpdVU3QJSmE9GJhgVHWmdeVotpYIfYDk34zp5Cgc2oGfZJK4jJWrH5SN29wqn6nj2ye8KC_wE3_LhJmg8/s1280/1698755052312.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6a1TSZGRSkLraV8a47UbJPEIC4xAD1g0ucbGncmcyke2u7aGUYBVdq4HsxZMfjAMMsijdWAXWsp5rvkYe9o2BJnn9IXRTSfsvvqgNWyMn0gjpdVU3QJSmE9GJhgVHWmdeVotpYIfYDk34zp5Cgc2oGfZJK4jJWrH5SN29wqn6nj2ye8KC_wE3_LhJmg8/w640-h360/1698755052312.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The second meeting of the Bath Azure User Group was on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/events/bathazureusergroup-decembermeet7125095114514804736/comments/">Thu, Dec 7, 2023, 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM</a> held at Cloud Direct, The Vaults, 1 Bartlett Street, Bath, England, GB, BA1 2QZ</p><p>The December meeting had an exciting packed agenda:</p><p>Unpacking the Ignite Book of News - Richard Cheney, Luke Fussell</p><p>Boosting your Azure CLI with OpenAI - Ira Rainey</p><p><a href="https://mvp.microsoft.com/">The Most Valuable Professional Program</a> - Dr Victoria Holt</p><p>I talked about the the program helping the community learn and grow and the passion for working with cutting-edge technology.</p><p>There lots of Pizza and plentiful Azure discussions. A fun night.</p>Victoria Holthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678450274216640396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776298140639563500.post-23595752299440228272023-12-04T19:40:00.001+00:002023-12-04T19:41:46.828+00:00Data Toboggan Winter Edition 2024<p>We are pleased to announce that <a href="https://www.datatoboggan.co.uk/">Data Toboggan</a> will return for its 4th year on Saturday 3rd February 2024. Our 2 track virtual conference covering covering all aspects of Azure Synapse Analytics and Fabric including Dedicated SQL Pools, Serverless SQL Pools, Spark, Pipelines, Data Engineering, Power BI, Machine Learning, and much more!</p><p>Imaged created in <a href="https://designer.microsoft.com/">https://designer.microsoft.com/</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw2ihPVQp5__4J2iuX0KUK889s_nV2quirvlDN_pvr1JKrTDvMwAXTqhxweh_O4p75LkOFflIT-7c9HUVJ7bgp2hayCd42N-qCy91l-taNsj0I-bxHlFeDjM0stRJZX0uoj4Ya_Y69Ccyl6z47b-PbXUwr9JUYFI7lnGp0yJaF4VzUODlRHf_sslZfu44/s1080/Save%20the%20Date%20for%20Data%20Toboggan%20(2).png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw2ihPVQp5__4J2iuX0KUK889s_nV2quirvlDN_pvr1JKrTDvMwAXTqhxweh_O4p75LkOFflIT-7c9HUVJ7bgp2hayCd42N-qCy91l-taNsj0I-bxHlFeDjM0stRJZX0uoj4Ya_Y69Ccyl6z47b-PbXUwr9JUYFI7lnGp0yJaF4VzUODlRHf_sslZfu44/w640-h640/Save%20the%20Date%20for%20Data%20Toboggan%20(2).png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Victoria Holthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678450274216640396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776298140639563500.post-834582190368645312023-12-02T21:31:00.001+00:002023-12-04T21:49:42.396+00:00Live view in Microsoft Purview <p><a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/live-view">Live view</a> in Microsoft Purview is in preview. Live view is a place that users with data access permissions can find Azure resources and their data assets in the Microsoft Purview Data Catalog without set-up or scanning. The metadata of the resources is immediately available when you access the free or enterprise versions of Microsoft Purview. </p><p>There are some limitations for live view for Microsoft Fabric:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Personal workspaces aren't supported yet in live view.</li><li>Only Microsoft Fabric item level metadata are available in live view.</li><li>Power BI Datasets don’t support showing schema in live view if the item hasn’t been scanned.</li><li>Dataflow Gen2 (Preview) items are displayed as Dataflow items.</li></ul><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm7NIaUzC1DzHnHtaAHZKEW6feTJ8sY0VSX2tkv9S8nVEZstgNLShBC6dId-HRJJxkQ-0AjBVWsxSKIDmpBPF5Y9c_bVqHjX4AWiLnYO46sehNO4Vds-s9ubVA02izolHc7uopzbSUcS5A_dOrQFQXEpfF8kG-xYoJgBpcBbKvEKSR5ES44EJ8_NtYwVI/s500/assets-concept-diagram-inline.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="329" data-original-width="500" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm7NIaUzC1DzHnHtaAHZKEW6feTJ8sY0VSX2tkv9S8nVEZstgNLShBC6dId-HRJJxkQ-0AjBVWsxSKIDmpBPF5Y9c_bVqHjX4AWiLnYO46sehNO4Vds-s9ubVA02izolHc7uopzbSUcS5A_dOrQFQXEpfF8kG-xYoJgBpcBbKvEKSR5ES44EJ8_NtYwVI/w640-h422/assets-concept-diagram-inline.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #161616;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Microsoft Fabric items that will be available in the Microsoft Purview Data Catalog using live view are:</span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeXZV3O-RgGTmP7-AtppLIwCaCxEnx5ba1Bli3p6_cWTCqWrqCb0yXgbA8TJmBfE8Hg6pMu0xm6wua38POkMuFLrZJgDNiri4GNsAyWbMpu7pN60q7QXQRt5KX1IzKMx0VPDSEEK9Y6bItbyXwRB9W0T_aXUm7KDhw7MjiOyADEZ9LVZsizUxruh0ao4c/s664/Screenshot%202023-12-04%202142421.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="656" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeXZV3O-RgGTmP7-AtppLIwCaCxEnx5ba1Bli3p6_cWTCqWrqCb0yXgbA8TJmBfE8Hg6pMu0xm6wua38POkMuFLrZJgDNiri4GNsAyWbMpu7pN60q7QXQRt5KX1IzKMx0VPDSEEK9Y6bItbyXwRB9W0T_aXUm7KDhw7MjiOyADEZ9LVZsizUxruh0ao4c/w632-h640/Screenshot%202023-12-04%202142421.png" width="632" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #161616; font-family: "Segoe UI", SegoeUI, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span><p></p>Victoria Holthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678450274216640396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776298140639563500.post-47370327685788539642023-11-29T19:42:00.001+00:002023-12-04T20:03:40.037+00:00A Generative AI course for beginners<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO151mK2GbEj6WAr4h1N0wGq9jFwQF0TD2nHrdzeyumcw_iV-9jGDtIhiQ4DpmKThHibdcpyq1qGQ5LVPD9bBA2ORQsaVlt_rxk7qHqbcfbFB-43kofs7pn-q5OtZoS-7gglF9GZlJ0twHTmc83LbYrqsT8aLTDF2_fgO6uft3FQGznFV5_Hr4KdQcbcE/s788/Screenshot%202023-12-04%20195036.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="788" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO151mK2GbEj6WAr4h1N0wGq9jFwQF0TD2nHrdzeyumcw_iV-9jGDtIhiQ4DpmKThHibdcpyq1qGQ5LVPD9bBA2ORQsaVlt_rxk7qHqbcfbFB-43kofs7pn-q5OtZoS-7gglF9GZlJ0twHTmc83LbYrqsT8aLTDF2_fgO6uft3FQGznFV5_Hr4KdQcbcE/w640-h362/Screenshot%202023-12-04%20195036.png" width="640" /></a></div><br />Microsoft Cloud Advocates have created a new set of <a href="https://microsoft.github.io/generative-ai-for-beginners/?utm_source=www.theaivalley.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=elon-musk-s-ai-chatbot-calls-him-overrated#/?id=a-12-lesson-course-teaching-everything-you-need-to-know-to-start-building-generative-ai-applications">training materials</a> to enable the learning of the fundamentals of building Generative AI applications with a 12-lesson comprehensive course. Each lesson covers a key aspect of Generative AI principles and application development. Throughout this course, you will be building your own Generative AI start up so you can get an understanding of what it takes to launch your ideas. The agenda is below.<p></p><p></p><table style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4d4d4d; display: block; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; margin: 1rem 0px; overflow: auto; text-size-adjust: none;"><thead style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: var(--table-head-background); border-color: var(--table-head-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-head-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-size-adjust: none;"><tr style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-size-adjust: none;"><th align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--strong-color); font-weight: var(--table-head-font-weight); padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"></th><th align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--strong-color); font-weight: var(--table-head-font-weight); padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><br /></th><th style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--strong-color); font-weight: var(--table-head-font-weight); padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-align: left; text-size-adjust: none;"></th></tr></thead><tbody style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-body-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-body-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-size-adjust: none;"><tr style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: var(--table-row-odd-background); box-sizing: inherit; text-size-adjust: none;"><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><br /></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><br /><b>Lesson Link</b><br /><a href="https://microsoft.github.io/generative-ai-for-beginners/?utm_source=www.theaivalley.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=elon-musk-s-ai-chatbot-calls-him-overrated#/00-course-setup/README?wt.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-bottom: var(--link-border-bottom); box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-color: var(--link-text-decoration-color); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-size-adjust: none;">Course Introduction - How to Take This Course</a></span></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><b>Concepts Taught</b><br /><br />Tech setup and course structure</span></td><td style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><b>Learning Goal</b><br />Setting you up for success while learning in this course</span></td></tr><tr style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: var(--table-row-even-background); box-sizing: inherit; text-size-adjust: none;"><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><br /></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><a href="https://microsoft.github.io/generative-ai-for-beginners/?utm_source=www.theaivalley.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=elon-musk-s-ai-chatbot-calls-him-overrated#/01-introduction-to-genai/README?wt.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-bottom: var(--link-border-bottom); box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-color: var(--link-text-decoration-color); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Introduction to Generative AI and LLMs</span></a></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--strong-color, currentColor); font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight); text-size-adjust: none;">Concept</span>: Generative AI and the current technology landscape</span></td><td style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Understanding what Generative AI is and how Large Language Models (LLMs) work.</span></td></tr><tr style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: var(--table-row-odd-background); box-sizing: inherit; text-size-adjust: none;"><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><br /></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><a href="https://microsoft.github.io/generative-ai-for-beginners/?utm_source=www.theaivalley.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=elon-musk-s-ai-chatbot-calls-him-overrated#/02-exploring-and-comparing-different-llms/README?wt.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-bottom: var(--link-border-bottom); box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-color: var(--link-text-decoration-color); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Exploring and comparing different LLMs</span></a></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--strong-color, currentColor); font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight); text-size-adjust: none;">Concept</span>: Testing, iterating, and comparing different Large Language Models</span></td><td style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Select the right model for your use case</span></td></tr><tr style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: var(--table-row-even-background); box-sizing: inherit; text-size-adjust: none;"><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><br /></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><a href="https://microsoft.github.io/generative-ai-for-beginners/?utm_source=www.theaivalley.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=elon-musk-s-ai-chatbot-calls-him-overrated#/03-using-generative-ai-responsibly/README?wt.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-bottom: var(--link-border-bottom); box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-color: var(--link-text-decoration-color); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Using Generative AI Responsibly</span></a></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--strong-color, currentColor); font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight); text-size-adjust: none;">Concept:</span> Understanding the limitations of foundation models and the risks behind AI</span></td><td style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Learn how to build Generative AI Applications responsibly</span></td></tr><tr style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: var(--table-row-odd-background); box-sizing: inherit; text-size-adjust: none;"><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><br /></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><a href="https://microsoft.github.io/generative-ai-for-beginners/?utm_source=www.theaivalley.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=elon-musk-s-ai-chatbot-calls-him-overrated#/04-prompt-engineering-fundamentals/README?wt.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-bottom: var(--link-border-bottom); box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-color: var(--link-text-decoration-color); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Understanding Prompt Engineering Fundamentals</span></a></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--strong-color, currentColor); font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight); text-size-adjust: none;">Code/Concept:</span> Hands-on application of Prompt Engineering Best Practices</span></td><td style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Understand prompt structure & usage</span></td></tr><tr style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: var(--table-row-even-background); box-sizing: inherit; text-size-adjust: none;"><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><br /></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><a href="https://microsoft.github.io/generative-ai-for-beginners/?utm_source=www.theaivalley.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=elon-musk-s-ai-chatbot-calls-him-overrated#/05-advanced-prompts/README?wt.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-bottom: var(--link-border-bottom); box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-color: var(--link-text-decoration-color); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Creating Advanced Prompts</span></a></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--strong-color, currentColor); font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight); text-size-adjust: none;">Code/Concept:</span> Extend your knowledge of prompt engineering by applying different techniques to your prompts</span></td><td style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Apply prompt engineering techniques that improve the outcome of your prompts.</span></td></tr><tr style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: var(--table-row-odd-background); box-sizing: inherit; text-size-adjust: none;"><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><br /></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><a href="https://microsoft.github.io/generative-ai-for-beginners/?utm_source=www.theaivalley.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=elon-musk-s-ai-chatbot-calls-him-overrated#/06-text-generation-apps/README?wt.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-bottom: var(--link-border-bottom); box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-color: var(--link-text-decoration-color); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Building Text Generation Applications</span></a></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--strong-color, currentColor); font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight); text-size-adjust: none;">Code:</span> Build a text generation app using Azure OpenAI</span></td><td style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Understand how to efficiently use tokens and temperature to vary the model's output</span></td></tr><tr style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: var(--table-row-even-background); box-sizing: inherit; text-size-adjust: none;"><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><br /></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><a href="https://microsoft.github.io/generative-ai-for-beginners/?utm_source=www.theaivalley.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=elon-musk-s-ai-chatbot-calls-him-overrated#/07-building-chat-applications/README?wt.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-bottom: var(--link-border-bottom); box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-color: var(--link-text-decoration-color); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Building Chat Applications</span></a></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--strong-color, currentColor); font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight); text-size-adjust: none;">Code</span>: Techniques for efficiently building and integrating chat applications.</span></td><td style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Identify key metrics and considerations to effectively monitor and maintain the quality of AI-powered chat applications</span></td></tr><tr style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: var(--table-row-odd-background); box-sizing: inherit; text-size-adjust: none;"><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><br /></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><a href="https://microsoft.github.io/generative-ai-for-beginners/?utm_source=www.theaivalley.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=elon-musk-s-ai-chatbot-calls-him-overrated#/08-building-search-applications/README?wt.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-bottom: var(--link-border-bottom); box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-color: var(--link-text-decoration-color); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Building Search Apps Vector Databases</span></a></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--strong-color, currentColor); font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight); text-size-adjust: none;">Code</span>: Semantic vs Keyword search. Learn about text embeddings and how they apply to search</span></td><td style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Create an application that uses Embeddings to search for data.</span></td></tr><tr style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: var(--table-row-even-background); box-sizing: inherit; text-size-adjust: none;"><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><br /></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><a href="https://microsoft.github.io/generative-ai-for-beginners/?utm_source=www.theaivalley.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=elon-musk-s-ai-chatbot-calls-him-overrated#/09-building-image-applications/README?wt.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-bottom: var(--link-border-bottom); box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-color: var(--link-text-decoration-color); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Building Image Generation Applications</span></a></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--strong-color, currentColor); font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight); text-size-adjust: none;">Code:</span> Image generation and why it's useful in building applications</span></td><td style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Build an image generation application</span></td></tr><tr style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: var(--table-row-odd-background); box-sizing: inherit; text-size-adjust: none;"><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><br /></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><a href="https://microsoft.github.io/generative-ai-for-beginners/?utm_source=www.theaivalley.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=elon-musk-s-ai-chatbot-calls-him-overrated#/10-building-low-code-ai-applications/README?wt.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-bottom: var(--link-border-bottom); box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-color: var(--link-text-decoration-color); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Building Low Code AI Applications</span></a></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--strong-color, currentColor); font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight); text-size-adjust: none;">Low Code:</span> Introduction to Generative AI in Power Platform</span></td><td style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Build a Student Assignment Tracker App for our education startup with Low Code</span></td></tr><tr style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: var(--table-row-even-background); box-sizing: inherit; text-size-adjust: none;"><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><br /></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><a href="https://microsoft.github.io/generative-ai-for-beginners/?utm_source=www.theaivalley.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=elon-musk-s-ai-chatbot-calls-him-overrated#/11-integrating-with-function-calling/README?wt.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-bottom: var(--link-border-bottom); box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-color: var(--link-text-decoration-color); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Integrating External Applications with Function Calling</span></a></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--strong-color, currentColor); font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight); text-size-adjust: none;">Code:</span> What is function calling and its use cases for applications</span></td><td style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Setup a function call to retrieve data from an external API</span></td></tr><tr style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: var(--table-row-odd-background); box-sizing: inherit; text-size-adjust: none;"><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><br /></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><a href="https://microsoft.github.io/generative-ai-for-beginners/?utm_source=www.theaivalley.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=elon-musk-s-ai-chatbot-calls-him-overrated#/12-designing-ux-for-ai-applications/README?wt.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-bottom: var(--link-border-bottom); box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-color: var(--link-text-decoration-color); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Designing UX for AI Applications</span></a></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--strong-color, currentColor); font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight); text-size-adjust: none;">Concept:</span> Designing AI Applications for Trust and Transparency</span></td><td style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Apply UX design principles when developing Generative AI Applications</span></td></tr><tr style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background: var(--table-row-even-background); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-size-adjust: none;"><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><br /></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><a href="https://microsoft.github.io/generative-ai-for-beginners/?utm_source=www.theaivalley.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=elon-musk-s-ai-chatbot-calls-him-overrated#/13-continued-learning/README?wt.mc_id=academic-105485-koreyst" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-bottom: var(--link-border-bottom); box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-color: var(--link-text-decoration-color); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Continue Your Learning</span></a></td><td align="center" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Links to continue your learning from each lesson!</span></td><td style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: var(--table-cell-border-color); border-style: solid; border-width: var(--table-cell-border-width, 0); box-sizing: inherit; padding: var(--table-cell-padding); text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Mastering your Generative AI skills</span></td></tr></tbody></table>Victoria Holthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678450274216640396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776298140639563500.post-78038097749891348482023-11-18T22:17:00.001+00:002023-11-19T22:47:27.222+00:00Microsoft Fabric is Generally Available<p>I watched the session </p><p><a href="https://ignite.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions/1eff13d6-1924-435a-8778-111d7131f061?source=sessions">Make your data AI ready with Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databricks</a></p><p>Jessica Hawk, Amir Netz, Arun Ulagaratchagan, Patrick Baumgartner, Profile picture of Kristen Christensen, Justyna Lucznik</p><p>'Bring your data into the era of AI with Microsoft Fabric, a powerful all in one AI powered analytics solution for enterprises that covers everything from data movement to data science, real time analytics and business intelligence. Learn how Azure Databricks and Microsoft Fabric seamlessly work together to offer customers a modern, price performant analytics solution that helps teams turn data into a competitive advantage.'</p><p>The discussion centred around the general availability of Microsoft Fabric. 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This unified experience streamlines navigation for all Purview solutions and provides a single-entry point for settings, search, and roles and permissions management. The risk and compliance solutions in the portal currently opens these solutions in the <a href="https://compliance.microsoft.com/">classic Microsoft Purview compliance portal</a> . The portal inclusions:</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBBQkinZJi-8mrbbodYaksEu1gnnPS98mQcWDEiaA3lIoUXizKTZT7eHWMOBN6AeBlw1Bb9-rmTnZKZDUSJhganPuMuRl3rUN5J8NWtFj2742DYqy163aZgdAOKfNfnsLnEkk4hAXCtPzJtkQoFQ7uirU26pj5TNbAfTkrBYKrS00bTNtgiHhklYuCgIs/s642/purview-portal-welcome.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="642" data-original-width="452" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBBQkinZJi-8mrbbodYaksEu1gnnPS98mQcWDEiaA3lIoUXizKTZT7eHWMOBN6AeBlw1Bb9-rmTnZKZDUSJhganPuMuRl3rUN5J8NWtFj2742DYqy163aZgdAOKfNfnsLnEkk4hAXCtPzJtkQoFQ7uirU26pj5TNbAfTkrBYKrS00bTNtgiHhklYuCgIs/w450-h640/purview-portal-welcome.png" width="450" /></a></p><span style="color: #161616;"><span style="background-color: white;"><p>New Microsoft Purview portal (preview) can be found at: <a href="https://purview.microsoft.com">https://purview.microsoft.com</a></p><p style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The solution cards on the portal home page provide quick access to open the Microsoft Purview solutions where access has been granted. It is great to see the Purview portals coming together under one roof as this will make navigation easier. </span></p></span></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #161616; font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #161616; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM5sivsTTo7jPYse4w3Rg04JZaFRdEM9zUDdXiA1zc0Cpyrb7Ucfki3JKd7s1lu3qZBXZ6rcGSqWEzJHGaockgza0FXjaukPu2L16VLxshLCSEImq19LUUlSdWrfT8Wxinssjv7_zr-pDoYiHsEts7TvgV4usO9LZyArIshNM8SADts7zeZwkLB5YrtOE/s998/purview-portal-solution-cards.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="109" data-original-width="998" height="70" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM5sivsTTo7jPYse4w3Rg04JZaFRdEM9zUDdXiA1zc0Cpyrb7Ucfki3JKd7s1lu3qZBXZ6rcGSqWEzJHGaockgza0FXjaukPu2L16VLxshLCSEImq19LUUlSdWrfT8Wxinssjv7_zr-pDoYiHsEts7TvgV4usO9LZyArIshNM8SADts7zeZwkLB5YrtOE/w640-h70/purview-portal-solution-cards.png" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #161616; font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #161616; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #161616; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p>Victoria Holthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678450274216640396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776298140639563500.post-30554799442986452962023-11-16T20:42:00.004+00:002023-11-19T22:36:12.997+00:00Microsoft Ignite 2023<p>An exciting introduction to Microsoft Ignite November 15 - 17, 2023. Two themes that I am excited about are the AI and Microsoft Fabric capability. </p><p><a href="https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/11/15/microsoft-ignite-2023-ai-transformation-and-the-technology-driving-change/">Microsoft Ignite 2023: AI transformation and the technology driving change</a></p><p>The full list of changes at Microsoft Ignite are listed in the <a href="https://news.microsoft.com/ignite-2023-book-of-news/">Microsoft Ignite Book of News</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKw5wT7RAoRmg7lfrq76moOqn-mSYXctX6DP_q4eOUl-TmLx_1F_3IYTgzwaX2ePA3b-TAw9Oh8UTzdoX4e4NF0us_R6z0A_9fbRtnlChGbw4XJBGCzpf1Pje-FUnzFHO4-9OW9eQKeAymwR17UStzovd5At4SuChQcwlD2pN_Obcu_gXDe0gQ4W0NkdI/s623/Screenshot%202023-11-15%20181521.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="623" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKw5wT7RAoRmg7lfrq76moOqn-mSYXctX6DP_q4eOUl-TmLx_1F_3IYTgzwaX2ePA3b-TAw9Oh8UTzdoX4e4NF0us_R6z0A_9fbRtnlChGbw4XJBGCzpf1Pje-FUnzFHO4-9OW9eQKeAymwR17UStzovd5At4SuChQcwlD2pN_Obcu_gXDe0gQ4W0NkdI/s320/Screenshot%202023-11-15%20181521.png" width="320" /></a></div><p>In the main keynote Satya announced over 100 changes. A few of the announcements discussed in the keynote are mentioned here:</p><p><a href="http://aka.ms/AzureMaia">Azure Maia</a> - The Microsoft Cloud accelerator optimized for LLM training and inference</p><p><a href="http://aka.ms/AzureOpenAIService">Azure Open AI Service</a> updates</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>GPT-4 Turbo - Preview</li><li>GPT-4 Turbo with Vision - Preview</li><li>DALL-E 3 - Preview</li><li>Fine Tuning - Preview</li></ul><p></p><p><a href="http://aka.ms/OpenModels">Model catalog</a> - New</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Stable Diffusion</li><li>Code Llama</li><li>Mistral 7B</li><li>NVIDA Nemotron-3 8B</li></ul><p></p><p><a href="http://aka.ms/ModelsAsAService">Models as a Service</a> - announcing</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Ready to use APIs</li><li>Hosted finetuning</li><li>Integrated with leading LLM tools</li></ul><p></p><p><a href="http://aka.ms/Phi-2">Phi-2</a> - Announcing</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Built by Microsoft Research</li><li>2.7 billion parameters</li><li>Common sense, language understanding, and logical reasoning</li></ul><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">The Phi-2 model is changing the game in artificial intelligence (AI) and it is designed to make machines think more like humans and do it safely.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN4-HTWwKzQpVF-LVGSkZchbnhATYzyBd1Y90PvJsAn6h-BBD5B4i1sn_QBxfZysJOnmC19r_GWM2Vc7vmvbVoZyx8QaN31c6MOCVsaSTx2Yzp2hbmYbkkQVg9xKIot08JUx2EtupLqO0YUD3pJ_Bm01xvjJzbCCyHrGvcBNjemel87MVyxR75coMXFrM/s855/Screenshot%202023-11-15%20172944.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="529" data-original-width="855" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN4-HTWwKzQpVF-LVGSkZchbnhATYzyBd1Y90PvJsAn6h-BBD5B4i1sn_QBxfZysJOnmC19r_GWM2Vc7vmvbVoZyx8QaN31c6MOCVsaSTx2Yzp2hbmYbkkQVg9xKIot08JUx2EtupLqO0YUD3pJ_Bm01xvjJzbCCyHrGvcBNjemel87MVyxR75coMXFrM/w640-h396/Screenshot%202023-11-15%20172944.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span><p></p><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://AI.Azure.com">Azure AI Studio</a> - Preview</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Unified platform</li><li>Hybrid and sematic search</li><li>Full development lifecycle</li><li>Extends to Windows</li><li>Safe and Responsible AI</li></ul></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Copilot stack is evolving with greater functionality.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx3CzMRKO1j9kxqEkAeEW26x5IgDUJK8CIDKEa7yHtPkYkHlCrt2W0sxMYO2KCDp3vkvlQDBsNHfw-NazDmhnzsLOvVnQZYJFuiYjzPE5dir9q3rQMdwfSQ0zb6wNoEM138JhkbG6CVP7YvBxqPKfbaQQZuoIauTsDCChuHeVIp6EJY_jT4FOg-ZCJxoU/s663/Screenshot%202023-11-15%20171202.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="663" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx3CzMRKO1j9kxqEkAeEW26x5IgDUJK8CIDKEa7yHtPkYkHlCrt2W0sxMYO2KCDp3vkvlQDBsNHfw-NazDmhnzsLOvVnQZYJFuiYjzPE5dir9q3rQMdwfSQ0zb6wNoEM138JhkbG6CVP7YvBxqPKfbaQQZuoIauTsDCChuHeVIp6EJY_jT4FOg-ZCJxoU/w640-h506/Screenshot%202023-11-15%20171202.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Microsoft Fabric is now generally available, a data platform for the era of AI.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPJ-E8TblfRaig-bqQriARe09BYoX6IO6XlrPwZXInGwmJPY8nNUg28gQNqrU-bP3ayJVtfo8rSRQ1d2eFlu7yJx2fthnTQ56rRdGTcMBktzzp6qSNNVWMHH8hht0pdX-_IoiXQcKwF0uJ7tH4KsI3a9F2-_tVQRqmCHgIoQBLuOw0hAq1hhW0-Y65jAg/s765/Screenshot%202023-11-15%20174941.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="505" data-original-width="765" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPJ-E8TblfRaig-bqQriARe09BYoX6IO6XlrPwZXInGwmJPY8nNUg28gQNqrU-bP3ayJVtfo8rSRQ1d2eFlu7yJx2fthnTQ56rRdGTcMBktzzp6qSNNVWMHH8hht0pdX-_IoiXQcKwF0uJ7tH4KsI3a9F2-_tVQRqmCHgIoQBLuOw0hAq1hhW0-Y65jAg/w640-h422/Screenshot%202023-11-15%20174941.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqjCkuS-p3zykraqVMi8vUTiX1HgQK0fko8969TN2XOAKhrvWeSyvmJEJx-m6GF4d6P-YLxfLsGgzdqMTDy6Iw5YO4OPNJjN-ZV1LH-FRXiEl7R5tbcq460XRtj-DOmiCa4HiSJrUE-be0FVWl0nYFaavVpNXzYvrmYU9MO9u0azyutvG-830d053GvgA/s847/Screenshot%202023-11-15%20174600.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="847" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqjCkuS-p3zykraqVMi8vUTiX1HgQK0fko8969TN2XOAKhrvWeSyvmJEJx-m6GF4d6P-YLxfLsGgzdqMTDy6Iw5YO4OPNJjN-ZV1LH-FRXiEl7R5tbcq460XRtj-DOmiCa4HiSJrUE-be0FVWl0nYFaavVpNXzYvrmYU9MO9u0azyutvG-830d053GvgA/w640-h388/Screenshot%202023-11-15%20174600.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/products/ai-services/ai-search/">Azure AI Search</a> - Deliver accurate, hyper-personalized responses in your Gen AI applications</p><p>There was also announcement of <a href="http://mesh.com">Mesh</a> on Microsoft Teams being generally available. </p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Copilot and avatar</li><li>Immersive spaces</li><li>No-code editor</li><li>Copilot and 3D space</li></ul><p></p><p>Then finally something different Azure <a href="http://aka.ms/QuantumElements">Quantum Elements</a> - purpose built to accelerate scientific discovery.</p>Victoria Holthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678450274216640396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776298140639563500.post-43372994825515182942023-11-16T10:38:00.001+00:002023-11-16T10:38:14.847+00:00PASS Community Summit 2023 Keynote 1<p>The <a href="https://passdatacommunitysummit.com/">PASS Data Community Summit 2023</a> global data conference is happening in Seattle between 14-17 November 14-17 2023. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZBh7BmRnTCMLKJkBsp5lPdvE_v5uChpkPfxsUjreZuI_4sT6omojrJwk7-WbBMViMFA2K95i_H68McnfD3_UeLMjSDTxwb1uKQKAgvXms_GIi3f4j3wgaRSqxMBM7SogkYPpc0X74E-q63LoVM2QodQk32t7EKZiDgHOhHJyImlqi8TFPo8KhVMjdihc/s935/Screenshot%202023-11-15%20162655.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="935" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZBh7BmRnTCMLKJkBsp5lPdvE_v5uChpkPfxsUjreZuI_4sT6omojrJwk7-WbBMViMFA2K95i_H68McnfD3_UeLMjSDTxwb1uKQKAgvXms_GIi3f4j3wgaRSqxMBM7SogkYPpc0X74E-q63LoVM2QodQk32t7EKZiDgHOhHJyImlqi8TFPo8KhVMjdihc/w640-h358/Screenshot%202023-11-15%20162655.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>The first keynote 'Limitless growth, limitless opportunities: Data and innovation in an AI world' was given by Shireesh Thota. He started talking about new technologies and how they offer limitless potential with AI, Generative AI and Real-time capabilities. The limitiless growth with Azure and those SQL databases: SQL Server, Azure SQL, Postgres, CosmosDB and MySQL. These offer limitless scale, flexible tools, Built-in AI, Performance and Guaranteed availability. </p><p>There are celebrations a foot due to SQL Server on Windows reaching 30 years old this year. SQL Server 2022 is the fastest adopted version of SQL Server with growth on both Windows and Linux. He also mentioned SQL Server enabled by Azure Arc with that cloud manageability for managing your entire SQL Server estate. Announcements were made</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLcidMr-l-Oqe_JCwhWeGi8LWgaTn2eC_MAaQvlgXdIss6JE2NZVRWhrN8XFC4rv72YZFEy38lbbMDVL-KJrRcXMT8LSoLw-vUyGjicK-BYXbDfZjgmt2mbxgznnkglizjStFex3REnGToxy1-NGJOpn7D4WbwMLliLLpaRW9lpPzSVCqYzMcXc2X5lhQ/s937/Screenshot%202023-11-15%20163652.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="937" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLcidMr-l-Oqe_JCwhWeGi8LWgaTn2eC_MAaQvlgXdIss6JE2NZVRWhrN8XFC4rv72YZFEy38lbbMDVL-KJrRcXMT8LSoLw-vUyGjicK-BYXbDfZjgmt2mbxgznnkglizjStFex3REnGToxy1-NGJOpn7D4WbwMLliLLpaRW9lpPzSVCqYzMcXc2X5lhQ/w640-h356/Screenshot%202023-11-15%20163652.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Discussions moved to Azure SQL and the family of SQL cloud in edge databases. A further announcement was made about the Azure SQL Managed Instance feature wave , that is now generally available. Azure SQL Managed instance has a free offer in preview for 12 months of free managed instance, available soon.</p><p> <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/managed-instance/doc-changes-updates-release-notes-whats-new?view=azuresql">What's new in Azure SQL Managed Instance?</a></p><p>They talked about that Cloud Modernization Journey: Evaluate, Optimize, Migrate and Modernize with ease. </p><p>Another announcement Azure SQL Database Hyperscale will be same price as commercial OSS databases – General Available mid December.</p><p>Some further to announcements were shared</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore – Generally Available</li><li>Vector Search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore – Generally Available </li><li>Natural language queries for Azure Cosmos DB – Public Preview</li><li>Azure Database for PostgreSQL Extension for Azure AI – Preview</li></ul><p></p><p>Then concluding with the database of the future will be autonomous and intelligent, developer friendly, cost efficient, and mission critical by default.</p>Victoria Holthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678450274216640396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776298140639563500.post-77674756643440886812023-11-15T22:48:00.003+00:002023-11-19T23:16:19.611+00:00Microsoft Cloud Innovation and Security Summit<p>I had the privilege to present at the <a href="https://formrooms.co.uk/">The Form Rooms</a> on Tuesday 14 November 2023 at the Microsoft Cloud Innovation and Security Summit run by Cloud Direct. </p><p>The Forms Rooms is on a quiet street in London’s chic Covent Garden that was once a historic Victorian school that has been lovingly restored. </p><p>My session was on 'The disruptive power of data and AI'. About how Generative AI, Microsoft Fabric and Data Governance are the talk of the town, but without the building blocks of good quality, secure, accessible data, innovation in business is stunted. </p><p>The talk covered how Data & AI are providing a catalyst for innovation addressing </p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Where is Data & AI tech going</li><li>Why having an agile data strategy and data governance adoption path is important. </li><li>How data can be a catalyst for innovation </li></ul><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYXOdaWU4CoeTIdd9BEw-FPhnm7_fNHKp43eaL615wbe5SFYD6Gojenwfbsd7FtzS1E7jxo0UYZ93QeYLwLQl5Zwi5nM-JMwF0aUlpGBSr47JcpuF3A3vOT7TvVU322JNRi_3jAeFkgv8IaQ4wOqovvcfdDPAy-FqGsMR6B9V8RkxBW5uj2_YPTglIweQ/s975/Screenshot%202023-11-19%20230842.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="553" data-original-width="975" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYXOdaWU4CoeTIdd9BEw-FPhnm7_fNHKp43eaL615wbe5SFYD6Gojenwfbsd7FtzS1E7jxo0UYZ93QeYLwLQl5Zwi5nM-JMwF0aUlpGBSr47JcpuF3A3vOT7TvVU322JNRi_3jAeFkgv8IaQ4wOqovvcfdDPAy-FqGsMR6B9V8RkxBW5uj2_YPTglIweQ/w640-h362/Screenshot%202023-11-19%20230842.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>In today’s world technology changes and enhancements are accelerating at speed. Developments from the 1960’s took decades to move into the modern workplace. But now we see these coming to the fore with the democratisation of technology. We moved from the </div><p>1970s where Codd invented the relational database</p><p>To the 1990s when ‘Big Data’ became a term to address the ever-increasing large volume of data, with discussions of volume, velocity , variety and veracity. Here we saw the mention of that ever-important reference to the quality of data. </p><p>With that grew the ‘Internet of Things’ processing more data from sensors, devices and communication networks. </p><p>Behind the scenes world leading database researchers meet every few years to discuss the impact on practice, challenges and emerging applications. The latest output was documented in the Seattle report in 2019. One of the areas discussed was the fact that it was impractical to continue to move volumes of data between systems. We see this fundamental change in Microsoft Fabric.</p><p>And today, it is all about ‘Generative AI’ and what it can create...</p><p>There were many really interesting sessions during the conference with Innovation, AI and Security intertwined. </p><div><br /></div>Victoria Holthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678450274216640396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776298140639563500.post-66095687162694737272023-11-15T20:02:00.001+00:002023-11-16T10:38:53.464+00:00Data Toboggan Alpine Coaster 2023 Agenda<p>Announcing the Data Toboggan - Alpine Coaster Agenda for APAC, EMEA and AMER</p><div data-slate-node="element" style="position: relative;"><span data-slate-node="text">Sign up for Data Toboggan Alpine Coaster</span></div><div data-slate-node="element" style="position: relative;"><span data-slate-node="text">Event: Friday 24th November</span></div><div data-slate-node="element" style="position: relative;"><span data-slate-node="text">Register: </span><span class="sc-ghzrUh dYatoo" data-slate-inline="true" data-slate-node="element"><a href="https://bit.ly/DTAC23-Register">https://bit.ly/DTAC23-Register</a></span><span data-slate-node="text"> </span></div><div data-slate-node="element" style="position: relative;">Agenda: <a href="https://www.datatoboggan.co.uk/alpine-coaster-2023-agenda/">https://www.datatoboggan.co.uk/alpine-coaster-2023-agenda/</a></div><div data-slate-fragment="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" data-slate-node="element" style="position: relative;"><br /></div><div data-slate-fragment="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" data-slate-node="element" style="position: relative;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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