Introducing Microsoft Semantic Kernel

The generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) space is evolving quickly, with dozens of new products and services being launched weekly; it is becoming hard for developers to keep up with the ever-changing features and application programming interfaces (APIs) for each of the services. In this book, you will learn about Microsoft Semantic Kernel, an API that will make it a lot easier for you to use GenAI as a developer, making your code shorter, simpler, and more maintainable. Microsoft Semantic Kernel will allow you, as a developer, to use a single interface to connect with several different GenAI providers. Microsoft used Semantic Kernel to develop its copilots, such as Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Billions of people already use GenAI as consumers, and you are probably one of them. We will start this chapter by showing some examples of what you can do with GenAI as a consumer. Then, you will learn how you can start using GenAI as a developer to...