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Using AI Skills as Cell Magics in Microsoft Fabric Notebooks

Published 2024-08-09 by Kevin Feasel

Sandeep Pawar takes a look at a new preview capability:

The public preview of AI Skills in Microsoft Fabric was announced yesterday. AI Skills allows Fabric developers to create their own GenAI experience using data in the lakehouse. Unlike Copilot, which is an AI assistant, AI Skills lets users build a validated Q&A application that queries lakehouse data by converting natural language questions into T-SQL queries. It’s only available in paid F64+ SKUs. You can watch the below video for Copilot, AI Skills and Gen AI experiences in Fabric:

Read on for more details on how it works.

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Chat with Your Own Data in Streamlit and Azure Open AI

Published 2024-08-07 by Kevin Feasel

I have a new video:

In this video, I show how we can make a GPT-4 deployment aware of our own custom data, without needing to fine-tune the model. I talk about meta prompts and the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pattern, and then show how you can set this up using Azure AI Search and Azure OpenAI. Then, I bring it back to Streamlit and give users the option between chatting with a generic GPT-4 deployment and chatting over custom data.

I try to make my videos 10 minutes in length. They usually end up at 15-18 minutes. This one clocks in at more than 30 minutes and there’s very little fluff.

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Chat with Azure OpenAI in Streamlit

Published 2024-08-01 by Kevin Feasel

I have a new video:

In this video, I show how we can integrate an Azure OpenAI GPT-4 model into our Streamlit dashboard. Along the way, I also show off how easy it is to create multiple pages and talk a bit about session state and secrets management as well.

The fun part about this is, there’s not even that much code involved. Streamlit handles most of the conversational aspects and you’re primarily responsible for saving history.

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Thoughts on Copilot in Fabric

Published 2024-04-04 by Kevin Feasel

Marc Lelijveld notes a pattern:

Lately it’s copilot before and after in all Microsoft communications and announcements. Also, during the Fabric Community Conference in Las Vegas where I was last week, it was hard to keep count of the number of times copilot was mentioned. Next to Microsoft communications, everyday conversations with customers and colleagues include copilots everywhere too. Which is fine, as long as we manage to keep things in perspective.

In this blog I will further elaborate on my experiences with copilot, where I experienced it as a useful addition to my day-to-day job and also where we should be careful. And no, this is not a rant on copilot, but just sharing my vision and everyday experience when talking about copilot to my customers.

I appreciate Marc’s grounding here. There’s a huge amount of hype around the various copilots, but after the initial demos, there’s a good bit less utility than meets the eye at present.

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Copilot in Azure SQL Database

Published 2024-03-22 by Kevin Feasel

Joe Sack gets in the cockpit:

We are excited to announce that Copilot in Azure SQL Database is now in limited public preview! Copilot in Azure SQL Database experiences are designed to streamline the design, operation, optimization, and health of Azure SQL Database-driven applications. It improves productivity in the Azure portal by offering natural language to SQL conversion and self-help for database administration.

Click through to see what you can do with it right now. I’d expect there will be more capabilities over time, too.

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