Connecting an Azure OpenAI service to an existing data index

In Azure, you can have multiple existing data sources, ranging from Azure Cosmos DB to various Azure Cognitive services with tokenized and indexed data. While the Azure OpenAI service works with commonly available GPT models, it also allows you to connect a chosen model to your specific data source. With this integration, you can analyze and extract data more intuitively by interacting with your application through natural language.

Let’s connect the Azure OpenAI service to an existing Azure Search service data index. By doing so, we will leverage the power of AI to analyze our internal data seamlessly.

Getting ready

Before we explore connecting Azure Search data to Azure OpenAI, we must do the following:

• On the server-side on your application, create a Chapter10/Recipe05 directory – this will be your working directory
• Copy the ChatBot component from the Adding a ChatBot recipe or from...