Chapter 2. Getting Started with OpenAI API

Even though GPT-3 is the most sophisticated and complex language model in the world, its capabilities are abstracted as a simple "text-in-text-out" interface to end users. This chapter will get you started with using that interface, Playground, and cover the technical nuances of the OpenAI API because it is always the details that reveal the true gems.

To work through this chapter, you must sign up for an OpenAI account at https://beta.openai.com/signup. If you haven’t done that, please do so now.

OpenAI Playground

Your OpenAI developer account provides access to the API and infinite possibilities. We’ll start with Playground, a private web-based sandbox environment that allows you to experiment with the API, learn how its components work, and access developer documentation and the OpenAI community. We will then show you how to build robust prompts that generate favorable responses for your application. We’ll...