I talked a little about semantic kernel in Part 1: Jumpstart Your Journey With Semantic Kernel, but I decided to leave out the juicy part. There are a few gears in SK. They spin and connect like the inside of the watch to make it do the magic. One of those gears is plugins. Plugins are the robotic arms of Semantic Kernel, capable of doing some work beyond chit-chatting.

Why Do We Need Plugins?

We all know GenAI is about — surprise, surprise: “Generative AI“. What do they train on? Tokens. These tokens are then mapped onto vector databases and can be used to predict the next token, etc, and the story goes on and on. What are these models capable of? Predicting subsequent tokens, and that’s about it (at least as of now). So, for those who think GAI is equal to AGI, no! Not yet!