AI is revolutionizing digital transformation by leaps and bounds, opening up new possibilities and changing the way organizations operate by becoming a fundamental tool for driving business efficiency and innovation.
In the midst of this era of change, one innovation that we are all too familiar with is ChatGPT, a language model developed by OpenAI that has captured worldwide attention and opened up a new world of possibilities in content creation, especially since its combination with Microsoft's powerful cloud and AI capabilities creating Azure OpenAI.
This wonderful partnership has enabled data professionals and developers, a complete and scalable environment to create cutting-edge AI solutions leveraging the cloud services and innovation capabilities of Azure and OpenAI. But what is this and why does it become the present and future of innovation?
What is Azure OpenAI?
Azure OpenAI Service is a set of cloud-based services from Microsoft that enables developers to create, train and deploy AI models using the OpenAI platform, including a suite of tools and services to develop, train and deploy AI models.
With Azure OpenAI, enterprises can access a wide range of cloud services to power intelligent and personalized applications, with enterprise-class SLAs and security, and while complying with various regulations such as data protection laws. In addition, it can be orchestrated with other types of cognitive services available, from natural language processing to machine learning and machine vision.
Which Azure OpenAI models can we use?
The following models can be used from OpenAI services:
- GPT-4, the most current model available.
- GPT-3, one of the most widespread natural language models. It includes the ChatGPT model.
- Codex, this model can generate code from natural language descriptions.
- DALL-E, the model that can create images from natural language provided by the user.
What are the advantages of working with Azure OpenAI?
- Ensure security: Running on Azure's global infrastructure, Azure Open AI meets all the critical requirements for enterprise security, compliance and availability, making your deployment more secure and reliable with role-based authentication and private connections to virtual networks in your subscription.
- Increase efficiency and control over data: Azure OpenAI is designed so that the development, training and deployment of ML models integrates automation techniques to reduce execution times. It also allows you to train your model with full control over your data, being able to customize it to obtain more accurate results through fine-tuning.
- Scalability: Azure OpenAI makes it easy to scale your workflows from a few examples to large data sets and machine learning models.
Integration capability: Integrated with other Azure services such as Cognitive Services, it allows you to compose much more complete AI solutions.
- SLA: At 99.9%, in fact Microsoft says: "Azure customers can access the OpenAI API in Azure with the compliance, regional support and enterprise-grade security that Azure offers."
- Regional Support: Currently available in the US, Western Europe and Central France currently expanding to new regions.
- Compliance: Azure complies with a broad index of international data protection and security regulations, such as:
In short, Azure OpenAI offers a number of advantages that make it a flexible, scalable and secure artificial intelligence platform capable of building solutions that solve the challenges of any organization.
Information security with Azure OpenAI
Information security has become a transcendental point for Microsoft prioritizing at all times the data protection of users and organizations in order to avoid some cases of great commotion as those occurred in recent months as the leaking of confidential information from Samsung after working with ChatGPT and even the blocking of Italy to ChatGPT as a preventive measure and respect for privacy.
It is for this reason that we must emphasize very clearly the differentiation between OpenAI ChatGPT and Azure OpenAI on the use and treatment that can be done with the data, making very clear Microsoft, in its documentation that "Never Azure OpenAI, will use customer data to train models and that the data of all customers hosted in Azure will remain within the Azure OpenAI service without being processed or sent to OpenAI", thus allowing its corporate use to ensure the confidentiality and security of your information.
You can find more information about Azure OpenAI Service privacy and security here.
AI Responsible for Microsoft
Microsoft, as part of its commitment to promote a responsible AI process, has developed a series of filters for the use of AI and key documentation to designate strict ethical principles that serve as a mechanism to ensure fairness, reliability, security, privacy, inclusion, transparency and accountability in the practice and use of artificial intelligence by users and organizations.
What can developers do with the Azure OpenAI service?
The OpenAI and Microsoft partnership enables developers to use artificial intelligence models, such as ChatGPT, to design more sophisticated and intelligent conversational interfaces that mimic human interactions. In addition, thanks to Azure's global infrastructure and network, developers can deploy, deploy and scale their applications to reach users around the world.
What is to come? The future of AI is yet to be written, in the meantime, we have seen how Microsoft has bet on improving the efficiency of its products, with the launches of Microsoft 365 Copilot or Microsoft Security Copilot, as well as Microsoft Designer to help creators develop content with natural language prompts.
Azure OpenAI, of course, is revolutionizing data analytics by unlocking its hidden potential with advanced solutions based on machine learning and natural language processing. This collaboration is transforming the way businesses use artificial intelligence to gain competitive advantage, drive innovation and improve operational efficiency.