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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

Using the OpenAI API with Node.js/JavaScript

JavaScript is the first programming language we're going to look at. JavaScript was originally created for scripting functionality on web pages. However, today, JavaScript can be used for just about any type of application development, from building websites and mobile apps to creating command-line tools, chatbots, and voice assistants – all thanks to Node. As mentioned previously, Node is a runtime environment for JavaScript. It lets us use JavaScript outside the web browser.

JavaScript and Node.js are both free to use and can be run on Linux, macOS, and Windows operating systems. But we won't be installing Node.js or running anything locally because all of our code will be run on replit. However, none of the code we'll be writing is in any way dependent on replit. So, everything we'll be doing could be done in any environment that was properly configured for Node development.

Alright, let's get to...