Introduction to Information Retrieval with Amazon Q

This course has been created with the help of Amazon Q business expert.

This course would provide a helpful overview of how Amazon Q can search for and summarize information to answer users' questions in a safe, faithful, helpful and responsible manner. The focus would be on finding and presenting factual information from reliable sources to address users' informational needs. Amazon Q aims to have thoughtful, nuanced discussions and looks forward to further conversations.

• Course level: Fundamental
• Duration: 25 minutes

Activities

This course includes presentations based on practical examples, with use-cases and demonstrations.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

• Understand why upskilling in generative AI increases productivity
• Identify some challenges that enterprises face when they try to adopt generative AI for their workforce
• Define Generative AI Stack
• Understand the different versions of Amazon Q and the appropriate use cases.
• Define the key use cases for Amazon Q business expert.
• Describe how Amazon Q business expert can help business users become more productive.
• Understand the key features in Amazon Q business expert in relation to
  • End Users
    • Conversational question-answering on enterprise data
    • Upload files and analyze content
  • Admins
    • Execute actions using plugins
    • Safety and security
• Define the key use cases for Amazon Q for AWS Builder Use
• Gain a practical understanding of how to use Amazon Q for AWS Builder Use improve developer productivity and creativity.

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• Non-technical enthusiasts
• Technical enthusiasts
• Decision makers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• IT experience 
• No prior cloud computing or AWS experience required 

Course outline

Section 1: The Opportunity and Challenges

• Lesson 1: Overview of Employee productivity
• Lesson 2: Generative AI’s ability
• Lesson 3: 3main challenges adopting generative AI
  • Accuracy
  • Security & control
  • Time to Value
• Lesson 4: How Amazon Q addresses generative AI Challenges above

Section 2: What is Amazon Q?

• Lesson 5: Generative AI Stack
• Lesson 6: Amazon Q areas of expertise
  • for Buisiness Use
    • Key Features
      • Conversational Q&A
      • Upload files and analyze content
      • Execute actions using plugins
      • Safety and security
  • for AWS Builder Use
    • Demo
      • AWS Management Console
      • AWS website
      • AWS Documentation
      • IDE

Section 3: Conclusion

• Lesson 7: Recap generative AI challenges Amazon Q addresses
• Lesson 8: Introduction to A Hands-On Look at Amazon Q Business Expert