AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models.Pdf book is a practical guide for developers and teams looking to create AI-powered applications with ease.
AI have not only increased demand for AI products, they’ve also lowered the barriers to entry for those who want to build AI products. The model-as-a-service approach has transformed AI from an esoteric discipline into a powerful development tool that anyone can use. Everyone, including those with minimal or no prior AI experience, can now leverage AI models to build applications. In this book, author Chip Huyen discusses AI engineering: the process of building applications with readily available foundation models.
The book starts with an overview of AI engineering, explaining how it differs from traditional ML engineering and discussing the new AI stack. The more AI is used, the more opportunities there are for catastrophic failures, and therefore, the more important evaluation becomes. This book discusses different approaches to evaluating open-ended models, including the rapidly growing AI-as-a-judge approach.
AI application developers will discover how to navigate the AI landscape, including models, datasets, evaluation benchmarks, and the seemingly infinite number of use cases and application patterns. You’ll learn a framework for developing an AI application, starting with simple techniques and progressing toward more sophisticated methods, and discover how to efficiently deploy these applications.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction to Building AI Applications with Foundation Models
2. Understanding Foundation Models
3. Evaluation Methodology
4. Evaluate AI Systems
5. Prompt Engineering
6. RAG and Agents
7. Finetuning
8. Dataset Engineering
9. Inference Optimization
10. AI Engineering Architecture and User Feedback
Epilogue
Index
