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Working with the OpenAI API

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Start your journey developing AI-powered applications with the OpenAI API. Learn about the functionality that underpins popular AI applications like ChatGPT.

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Discover How to Access AI Models from the OpenAI API

Over recent years, OpenAI has emerged as a market leader in creating AI models, such as GPT-4o, and releasing them to the wider community through applications like ChatGPT. These models can transform not only the way you work but also the products and services that businesses provide to customers.

To begin extracting business value from OpenAI's models, you'll need to learn to work with their Application Programming Interface, or API. Throughout the course, you'll learn to use Python code to send requests to use OpenAI's models.

Solve Real-World Problems Using AI Models

The AI models accessible through the OpenAI API have a wide range of potential applications. In this course, you'll use AI to generate and transform text content, perform sentiment analysis, and categorization.

Begin Developing AI Applications

As AI becomes more accessible to individuals and organizations, the bar for developing AI-driven product features and automations continues to fall. Right now, every organization has the capability to begin using AI to streamline business processes and develop more personalized customer experiences. The OpenAI API provides easy access for software engineers and developers to start integrating AI into new applications and systems.

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What you'll learn

  • Identify the core components of the OpenAI API, including roles, endpoints, and authentication requirements.
  • Recognize the differences between zero-shot, one-shot, and few-shot prompting strategies.
  • Define key parameters such as temperature and max_completion_tokens and assess their impact on model outputs.
  • Distinguish between user, assistant, and system roles in structuring effective conversations with the API.
  • Evaluate the cost structure of API usage by calculating input and output token charges.

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1

Introduction to the OpenAI API

Harness the power of AI from OpenAI's models by creating requests to their API with just a few lines of code. Discover the wide range of capabilities available via the OpenAI API.
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Prompting OpenAI Models

OpenAI's GPT series of language models have created headlines the world over. In this chapter, you'll generate and refine text, classify content with AI, analyze sentiment, and explore shot prompting to optimize response outputs.
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Building Conversations with the OpenAI API

Time to create your very own AI-powered chatbot! You'll learn how to write effective system messages, provide examples in the form of user and assistant messages, and integrate a message history to retain context between prompts.
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