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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)

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introduction to AI Services, introduces some of the basic concepts of AI.

Chapter 2, Configuring an Environment to Support AI Services, walks through the steps necessary to activate subscriptions and enable AI services in your environment.

Chapter 3, Talking to ChatGPT, introduces interacting with ChatGPT.

Chapter 4, Using ChatGPT and Copilot to Create Flows, demonstrates how to use AI to assist in creating Power Automate flows.

Chapter 5, Bootstrapping a Power App with Copilot, focuses on the power of Copilot to help design and modify a basic Power App through a conversational interface.

Chapter 6, Processing Data with Sentiment Analysis, shows how to leverage a machine learning capability to analyze text and then trigger actions based on a positive, negative, or neutral sentiment.

Chapter 7, Using Power Automate and AI to Build PowerPoint Presentations, explores the use of Power Automate and ChatGPT to create a PowerPoint presentation based on content sourced from the internet.

Chapter 8, Building an Event Registration App with Identity Verification, shows how to process government-issued identity documents to verify the identity of a registrant and then send automated meeting confirmations.

Chapter 9, Implementing an AI-Enabled Resume Screener, combines the power of document recognition, entity extraction, and a GPT service to process a submitted resume and evaluate whether it’s a good fit against a particular job description.

Chapter 10, Creating an Executive Summary with GPT, demonstrates how to use GPT to generate an executive summary of a document and then insert it into a document or presentation.

Chapter 11, Using AI to Tag Images in a SharePoint Library, shows how to use the Azure Computer Vision service to categorize images based on content and then update a document library with descriptions and tags.

Chapter 12, Creating a Generative AI-Based Bot, explores the new Copilot Studio interface to create conversational bots that can provide answers through both ChatGPT and by reasoning over a set of document content.

Chapter 13, Publishing a Generative AI-Based Bot, leverages the conversation bot created in Chapter 12 and walks through making the bot available for end users.