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Getting started with the Azure AI services

Azure has a lot to offer if you want start building AI enabled solutions. But where do you start? There is just so much to learn and explore that it is easy to get lost in all the services, documentation and information out there. That's where the Book of AI comes in. This comprehensive guide is designed to help you navigate the world of AI services in Azure, providing you with the resources, tutorials, and sample code you need to build innovative solutions using Azure AI services.

Why use the Book of AI?

The website itself gives the following arguments:

I can only agree with that. Use the book of AI to try out not only the different Azure AI services but also the different SDK’s and client libraries. Not a C# developer?  No problem! All examples are available in multiple programming languages.

 

Eat your own AI

But for me the greatest feature of the Book of AI is not the content itself but the way it has been created. Instead of manually writing the complete website, it was completely generated by combining the power of OpenAI's GPT-4o model with the Azure AI CLI.

They first created a context aware OpenAI assistant that contained all the source code:

github clone https://github.com/Azure/azure-ai-cli
ai chat assistant create --name MyCliAssistant --files "\*\*/*.cs"

Then they used the Azure AI CLI to execute different prompts. Check out the dev folder inside the Github repo to find the different prompts used to generate the website.

ai chat --built-in-functions --user-prompt @PROMPT1

Here is an example:

 

 Impressive!

More information

BOOK of AI

Unlock Azure AI with the Book of AI: A Developer's Journey by Rob Chambers

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