OpenAI API Cookbook

OpenAI API Cookbook

by Henry Habib
Released March 2024
Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
ISBN: 9781805121350

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Book description

Explore the vast possibilities of integrating the ChatGPT API across various domains, from creating simple wrappers to developing knowledge-based assistants, multi-model applications, and conversational interfaces

Key Features

  • Understand the different elements, endpoints, and parameters of the OpenAI API
  • Build tailored intelligent applications and workflows with the OpenAI API
  • Create versatile assistants with for a multitude of tasks
  • Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

As artificial intelligence continues to reshape industries with OpenAI at the forefront of AI research, knowing how to create innovative applications such as chatbots, virtual assistants, content generators, and productivity enhancers is a game-changer. This book takes a practical, recipe-based approach to unlocking the power of OpenAI API to build high-performance intelligent applications in diverse industries and seamlessly integrate ChatGPT in your workflows to increase productivity.

You’ll begin with the OpenAI API fundamentals, covering setup, authentication, and key parameters, and quickly progress to the different elements of the OpenAI API. Once you’ve learned how to use it effectively and tweak parameters for better results, you’ll follow advanced recipes for enhancing user experience and refining outputs. The book guides your transition from development to live application deployment, setting up the API for public use and application backend. Further, you’ll discover step-by-step recipes for building knowledge-based assistants and multi-model applications tailored to your specific needs.

By the end of this book, you’ll have worked through recipes involving various OpenAI API endpoints and built a variety of intelligent applications, ready to apply this experience to building AI-powered solutions of your own.

What you will learn

  • Grasp the fundamentals of the OpenAI API
  • Navigate the API's capabilities and limitations of the API
  • Set up the OpenAI API with step-by-step instructions, from obtaining your API key to making your first call
  • Explore advanced features such as system messages, fine-tuning, and the effects of different parameters
  • Integrate the OpenAI API into existing applications and workflows to enhance their functionality with AI
  • Design and build applications that fully harness the power of ChatGPT

Who this book is for

This book is perfect for developers, data scientists, AI/tech enthusiasts, citizen developers, and no-code aficionados keen on using and mastering the OpenAI API. Whether you’re a beginner or experienced professional, this book is ideal for quickly creating intelligent applications such as chatbots or content generators, through step-by-step recipes that take you from the basics of the API to creating sophisticated applications systematically. The OpenAI API is accessed with Python in this book, so familiarity with Python and APIs is preferred but not mandatory.

Table of contents

  1. OpenAI API Cookbook
  2. Foreword
  3. Contributors
  4. About the author
  5. About the reviewers
  6. Preface
    1. Who this book is for
    2. What this book covers
    3. To get the most out of this book
      1. Download the example code files
    4. Conventions used
    5. Sections
      1. Getting ready
      2. How to do it…
      3. How it works…
      4. There’s more…
      5. See also
    6. Get in touch
    7. Share Your Thoughts
    8. Download a free PDF copy of this book
  7. Chapter 1: Unlocking OpenAI and Setting Up Your API Playground Environment
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Setting up your OpenAI Playground environment
      1. Getting ready
      2. How to do it…
      3. How it works…
    3. Running a completion request in the OpenAI Playground
      1. Getting ready
      2. How to do it…
      3. How it works…
      4. There’s more…
    4. Using the System Message in the OpenAI Playground
      1. How to do it…
      2. How it works…
      3. There’s more…
    5. Using the Chat Log to modify the model’s behavior
      1. How to do it…
      2. How it works…
    6. Making OpenAI API requests with Postman
      1. Getting ready
      2. How to do it…
      3. How it works…
  8. Chapter 2: OpenAI API Endpoints Explained
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Generating customized responses using the Chat Completions endpoint
      1. Getting ready
      2. How to do it…
      3. How it works…
      4. There’s more…
    3. Creating pictures using the Images endpoint
      1. How to do it…
      2. How it works…
    4. Generating transcripts using the Audio endpoint
      1. Getting ready
      2. How to do it…
      3. How it works…
  9. Chapter 3: Understanding Key Parameters and Their Impact on Generated Responses
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Changing the model parameter and understanding its impact on generated responses
      1. Getting ready
      2. How to do it…
      3. How it works…
    3. Controlling the number of generated responses using the n parameter
      1. How to do it…
      2. How it works…
    4. Determining the randomness and creativity of generated responses using the temperature parameter
      1. How to do it…
      2. How it works…
  10. Chapter 4: Incorporating Additional Features from the OpenAI API
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Using the Python library to call the OpenAI API
      1. Getting ready
      2. How to do it…
      3. How it works…
      4. Benefits and drawbacks of using the Python library
    3. Using the embedding model for text comparisons and other use cases
      1. How to do it…
      2. How it works…
    4. Fine-tuning a completion model
      1. How to do it…
      2. How it works…
  11. Chapter 5: Staging the OpenAI API for Application Development
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Creating a public endpoint server that calls the OpenAI API
      1. Getting ready
      2. How to do it…
      3. How it works…
    3. Extending the endpoint server to accept parameters and return data
      1. How to do it…
      2. How it works…
    4. Calling the user-created endpoint from no-code applications
      1. Getting ready
      2. How to do it…
      3. How it works…
  12. Chapter 6: Building Intelligent Applications with the OpenAI API
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Creating a wrapper application that generates replies to your emails
      1. How to do it…
      2. How it works…
    3. Creating a multi-modal application that generates travel itineraries
      1. How to do it…
      2. How it works…
  13. Chapter 7: Building Assistants with the OpenAI API
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Creating a knowledge-retrieval assistant application
      1. Getting ready
      2. How to do it…
      3. How it works…
    3. Creating a knowledge-retrieval assistant through the Assistants API
      1. How to do it…
      2. How it works…
  14. Index
    1. Why subscribe?
  15. Other Books You May Enjoy
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    2. Share Your Thoughts
    3. Download a free PDF copy of this book

Product information

  • Title: OpenAI API Cookbook
  • Author(s): Henry Habib
  • Release date: March 2024
  • Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781805121350