Interacting with Large Language Models​

This repository is for the AI Tour workshop: Interacting with Large Language Models

Session Desciption

This workshop is designed to give you a hands-on introduction to the core concepts and best practices for interacting with OpenAI models in Azure AI Studio. If you have been provided with a Skillable Environment, you'll be using the VM and pre-provisioned Azure resources provided to you to complete the lab. If you are running this workshop on your own, you will need to have an Azure subscription and provision the resources yourself by deploying the resources to Azure.

Abstract

This lab provides a hands-on and engaging learning opportunity for working with Large Language Models. Learn how to use methods such as few-shot learning and chain of thought. See the creative possibilities of generative AI for image creation and multi-modal scenarios, master the skill of function calling and understand how the model can apply existing knowledge.

Duration

75 Minutes

Slide Deck

Learning Outcomes

• Understand how Large Language Models work, including what tokens are​
• Explore Prompt Engineering techniques and best practices​
• Understand how models apply existing knowledge​
• Get started with building an Azure AI assistant
• Implementing function calling in LLM applications​

Technology Used

• Azure AI Studio

Workshop Instructions

The step by step workshop instructions can be found as follows:

• Skillable Workshop Instructions
• Workshop Instructions if you are deploying directly on Azure - for Field Stops

Additional Resources and Continued Learning

Content Owners

Responsible AI

Microsoft is committed to helping our customers use our AI products responsibly, sharing our learnings, and building trust-based partnerships through tools like Transparency Notes and Impact Assessments. Many of these resources can be found at https://aka.ms/RAI. Microsoft’s approach to responsible AI is grounded in our AI principles of fairness, reliability and safety, privacy and security, inclusiveness, transparency, and accountability.

Large-scale natural language, image, and speech models - like the ones used in this sample - can potentially behave in ways that are unfair, unreliable, or offensive, in turn causing harms. Please consult the Azure OpenAI service Transparency note to be informed about risks and limitations.

The recommended approach to mitigating these risks is to include a safety system in your architecture that can detect and prevent harmful behavior. Azure AI Content Safety provides an independent layer of protection, able to detect harmful user-generated and AI-generated content in applications and services. Azure AI Content Safety includes text and image APIs that allow you to detect material that is harmful. We also have an interactive Content Safety Studio that allows you to view, explore and try out sample code for detecting harmful content across different modalities. The following quickstart documentation guides you through making requests to the service.

Another aspect to take into account is the overall application performance. With multi-modal and multi-models applications, we consider performance to mean that the system performs as you and your users expect, including not generating harmful outputs. It's important to assess the performance of your overall application using generation quality and risk and safety metrics.

You can evaluate your AI application in your development environment using the prompt flow SDK. Given either a test dataset or a target, your generative AI application generations are quantitatively measured with built-in evaluators or custom evaluators of your choice. To get started with the prompt flow sdk to evaluate your system, you can follow the quickstart guide. Once you execute an evaluation run, you can visualize the results in Azure AI Studio.