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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

Understanding APIs

The acronym API stands for Application Programming Interface. APIs allow software to communicate between systems and interchange data – to share computer system resources and software functionality. Because functionality can be shared, they also enable code reuse. This generally improves the quality of systems while also reducing development efforts.

Web-based APIs are exposed over the internet using HTTP, the same protocol you use when you visit a URL in a web browser. So, using a web-based API is very much like using a website. For example, when you use an API, you make requests to a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), just like you do when you access a website. The URL provides the reference for a resource, data, or functionality provided by the API.

Like a website, each API is a collection of one or more URLs, which are also referred to as endpoints. Each endpoint provides access to a specific resource or functionality. Some endpoints might take input...