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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 in Python

Python is another popular programming language, and it is especially popular among the machine learning community. It's a robust language but it's also very beginner-friendly. If you are coding for the first time, Python will probably be one of the easier languages to get started with. Like with JavaScript/Node, Python is open source and can be used on Linux, macOS, or Windows. It is also included with many operating systems, including macOS and most Linux distributions. But since we'll be working in replit, we don't need to worry about Python being installed on our local machine. That said, nothing in the code we'll be writing depends on anything that is specific to replit. So, everything we'll be doing could be done on any computer that is properly configured for doing Python development.

For our first example, we'll look at using Python to call the OpenAI Engines endpoint.

Calling the engines endpoint

We...