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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

Introducing CURL and Postman

In this section, we'll look at a couple of developer tools for working with APIs. As we've discussed, APIs are designed to be used in code. However, during the development process, you'll often want to call an API endpoint without writing code to get familiar with the functionality or for testing. To do that, there are a number of developer tools available. Two of the most popular developer tools for working with APIs are CURL and Postman.

CURL

CURL is a popular command-line tool for making HTTP requests. It's been around since 1998, so it's very mature and widely used. Many API publishers, including OpenAI, provide API examples, using CURL syntax in their documentation. The following screenshot shows an example of the CURL syntax used in the OpenAI API docs. So, even if CURL isn't the tool you decide to use in the long run, it's helpful to be familiar with it.

The following screenshot shows CURL syntax in the...