Creating a knowledge-retrieval assistant through the Assistants API
OpenAI has recently released the Assistants API, wherein you can create knowledge-based assistants with minimal coding and complexity. A big advantage is that you can incorporate tools into your assistants that OpenAI has built, such as Code Interpreter and Knowledge Retrieval. These augmentations essentially give your assistant application superpowers. For this recipe, we will focus on the Knowledge Retrieval tool.
Knowledge Retrieval enhances your assistants by incorporating external knowledge (such as the drone manual PDF file from the previous recipe). OpenAI automatically and efficiently segments any uploaded documents while creating indices of embeddings. These embeddings are stored in OpenAI’s database.
Recall in Chapter 4 we discussed how embeddings can be used to compare text similarity and to search for segments of texts. With Knowledge Retrieval, OpenAI does this automatically for you. When...
