Google Develop Search and Agents with AI Applications

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After this course participants should be able to:

• Explore the options in Vertex AI for generative AI.
• Identify the role of AI Applications: Search, Recommendations, and Agents.
• Examine use cases for Vertex AI Search and Agents.
• Create enterprise-grade generative AI applications with AI Applications.
• Choose the appropriate engine for a search or conversation app.
• Import data into a data store.
• Create and configure a custom search app.
• Identify why grounding is important.
• Leverage Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
• Use grounding options on Google Cloud.
• Test grounding using the Vertex AI Studio and SDK.
• Create conversational agents.
• Manage conversations with playbooks.
• Use examples to improve a playbook’s response.
• Leverage data store tools to perform grounding for your playbook’s responses.
• Explore the features and benefits of the Agent Development Kit (ADK).
• Accelerate agent development with Agent Garden.
• Use ADK to build multi-agent applications.
• Leverage a Data Store tool from an ADK agent.

Module 1: Vertex AI and AI Applications

• Vertex AI for generative AI
• AI Applications: Search, Recommendations, and Agents
• Use cases for Vertex AI Search and Agents

Module 2: Vertex AI Search

• Basic concepts: apps, engines, and data stores
• Data sources and preparing data
• Creating a data store
• Configuring Vertex AI Search
• Deploy Vertex AI Search

Module 3: Grounding Applications

• Why is grounding important?
• Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Grounding options on Google Cloud
• Testing grounding in Vertex AI Studio
• Grounding using the Vertex AI SDK

Module 4: Conversational Agents

• Customer Engagement Suite (CES)
• Deterministic vs. generative agents
• Playbooks
• Data store tools

Module 5: Multi-agent Applications on Vertex AI

• Multi-agent applications and agentic AI
• Introduction to Agent Developer Kit (ADK)
• Vertex AI Agent Garden
• Vertex AI Agent Engine
• Putting it all together with AI Applications

Knowledge of generative AI basic concepts and programming knowledge (Python)

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