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Power Platform and the AI Revolution

By : Aaron Guilmette
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Power Platform and the AI Revolution

By: Aaron Guilmette

Overview of this book

In this AI era, employing leading machine learning and AI models such as ChatGPT for responding to customer feedback and prototyping applications is crucial to drive business success in the competitive market. This book is an indispensable guide to integrating cutting-edge technology into business operations and leveraging AI to analyze sentiment at scale, helping free up valuable time to enhance customer relationships. Immerse yourself in the future of AI-enabled application development by working with Power Automate, Power Apps, and the new Copilot Studio. With this book, you’ll learn foundational AI concepts as you explore the extensive capabilities of the low-code Power Platform. You’ll see how Microsoft's advanced machine learning technologies can streamline common business tasks such as extracting key data elements from customer documents, reviewing customer emails, and validating passports and drivers’ licenses. The book also guides you in harnessing the power of generative AI to expedite tasks like creating executive summaries, building presentations, and analyzing resumes. You’ll build apps using natural language prompting and see how ChatGPT can be used to power chatbots in your organization. By the end of this book, you’ll have charted your path to developing your own reusable AI automation patterns to propel your business operations into the future.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Configuring solution prerequisites

Before you start the workflow configuration, you’ll need to get a few prerequisites out of the way—namely, to obtain free, trial, or paid subscriptions to OpenAI, Encodian, and Cloudmersive, set up a template document, and ensure you have a storage location for the finished document.

Let’s quickly look at getting these ready.

Enabling subscriptions

If you’ve already got those, great! If not, you can refer to Chapter 2 for information on the configuration of an OpenAI subscription, Chapter 7 for obtaining an Encodian trial, and Chapter 9 for signing up for a free Cloudmersive subscription.

Preparing a document template

If you’ve already completed the exercise in Chapter 7, you’re familiar with the Populate action that we’ll be using from the Encodian Flowr connector. Essentially, you edit a document (in this case, a Word document containing your statement of work or another document that...