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Exploring GPT-3

By : Steve Tingiris
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Exploring GPT-3

By: Steve Tingiris

Overview of this book

Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) is a highly advanced language model from OpenAI that can generate written text that is virtually indistinguishable from text written by humans. Whether you have a technical or non-technical background, this book will help you understand and start working with GPT-3 and the OpenAI API. If you want to get hands-on with leveraging artificial intelligence for natural language processing (NLP) tasks, this easy-to-follow book will help you get started. Beginning with a high-level introduction to NLP and GPT-3, the book takes you through practical examples that show how to leverage the OpenAI API and GPT-3 for text generation, classification, and semantic search. You'll explore the capabilities of the OpenAI API and GPT-3 and find out which NLP use cases GPT-3 is best suited for. You’ll also learn how to use the API and optimize requests for the best possible results. With examples focusing on the OpenAI Playground and easy-to-follow JavaScript and Python code samples, the book illustrates the possible applications of GPT-3 in production. By the end of this book, you'll understand the best use cases for GPT-3 and how to integrate the OpenAI API in your applications for a wide array of NLP tasks.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: Understanding GPT-3 and the OpenAI API
4
Section 2: Getting Started with GPT-3
8
Section 3: Using the OpenAI API

Exploring the OpenAI developer console

The Playground is part of the OpenAI developer console. The developer console is a private web-based portal that provides developer resources and tools – the Playground being one of them. To access the developer console, you'll need a valid OpenAI developer account. While this chapter will largely focus on the Playground and, more specifically, the Playground settings, it's worth taking a minute to review some of the other resources available in the OpenAI developer console, starting with the developer documentation.

Developer documentation

When you're working with new technologies, good documentation is very often not available. Fortunately, that's not the case with GPT-3. The OpenAI documentation is extremely well done. It's complete, easy to follow, and provides a number of very useful examples. We looked at one of those examples – a classification prompt example – in Chapter 1, Introducing...