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Introduction to the OpenAI Chat Completions API

Difficulty: Beginner

Duration: Up to 30 minutes

Students: 356

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Description

Large language model (LLM) artificial intelligence (AI) has been used to produce human-like conversations with users through applications like OpenAI's ChatGPT. This lab introduces you to the OpenAI chat completion API and demonstrates how to use it to programmatically generate conversational responses. See what it takes to include generative AI in your applications and how to use it to create engaging user experiences.

You will use the official OpenAI Python client library to interact with the chat completion API in a Jupyter notebook. By iterating on a prompt, you will understand how to improve response quality and accuracy in the context of a conversation.

Learning objectives

Upon completion of this beginner-level lab, you will be able to:

Describe the OpenAI chat completion API
Explain the different roles available in the conversation
Discuss different models and parameters available to tailor the performance of the API