Talk: Season of AI at Boston Azure

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Last night at Boston Azure I teamed up with Jason Haley to cover the current Azure AI topics from the Microsoft-created Season of Azure program. An engaged group showed up at NERD in Cambridge to hear all about it.

Jason Haley’s code and materials are here: https://jasonhaley.com/2024/06/25/boston-azure-june-2024/

For my part, I pulled content from Generative AI for .NET Developers and Getting Started with Azure AI Studio and blended in some of my own. The combined mega-deck is attached to this post, though the deck spans much more than I had time to go through.

If you attended and have not had opportunity to give some feedback to Microsoft, there are only a few quick questions.

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Also complements of the Season of AI team, check out these resources.

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Download Deck Bill Presented

A diagram we spent time on (slightly updated, source here):

And finally, the deck I used follows:

And here are a couple of the links I showed during the talk that got a lot of discussion or attention:

https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer
https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4-turbo-and-gpt-4

Recall the third one shown – Telugu – was wildly more expensive (in terms of token count) than English (50 tokens) and Chinese (75 tokens) – where Telugu weighed in at 353 tokens.