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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

Chapter 4: Working with the OpenAI API

Up to this point, everything we've done with GPT-3 has been through the Playground. While the Playground is a great place for learning and testing, when you're building applications that incorporate GPT-3, you'll also need to understand how to use the OpenAI API directly. So, in this chapter, we'll look at using the OpenAI API directly by making HTTP requests. We'll start with a general introduction to APIs and the HTTP protocol. Then we'll look at a couple of developer tools for working with API requests and the JSON data-interchange format.

The topics we'll cover are as follows:

  • Understanding APIs
  • Getting familiar with HTTP
  • Reviewing the OpenAI API endpoints
  • Introducing CURL and Postman
  • Understanding API authentication
  • Making an authenticated request to the OpenAI API
  • Introducing JSON
  • Using the Completions endpoint
  • Using the Semantic Search endpoint