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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

Getting familiar with HTTP

Because APIs are designed to be used in code, in order to work with them, you do need to know a bit more about the HTTP protocol than you do for just accessing websites. So, in this section, you'll learn some HTTP basics.

For starters, HTTP is a request-response protocol. So, a client (the requesting system) makes a request to a server (the receiving system), which then responds to the client. The client references the server and the resource being requested using a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).

Uniform resource identifiers

An HTTP URI provides the details needed to make an HTTP request to a specific server for a specific resource. To illustrate, let's break down the http://api.open-notify.org/astros.json endpoint that we looked at previously in the Understanding APIs section. The endpoint begins with a reference to the protocol used. In our example, this is http://. For web-based APIs, this will always either be HTTP or HTTPS. When...