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Exploring GPT-3
Exploring GPT-3

Exploring GPT-3: An unofficial first look at the general-purpose language processing API from OpenAI

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Exploring GPT-3

Chapter 1: Introducing GPT-3 and the OpenAI API

The buzz about Generative Pre-trained Transformer Version 3 (GPT-3) started with a blog post from a leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) research lab, OpenAI, on June 11, 2020. The post began as follows:

We're releasing an API for accessing new AI models developed by OpenAI. Unlike most AI systems which are designed for one use-case, the API today provides a general-purpose "text in, text out" interface, allowing users to try it on virtually any English language task.

Online demos from early beta testers soon followed—some seemed too good to be true. GPT-3 was writing articles, penning poetry, answering questions, chatting with lifelike responses, translating text from one language to another, summarizing complex documents, and even writing code. The demos were incredibly impressive—things we hadn't seen a general-purpose AI system do before—but equally impressive was that many of the demos were created by people with a limited or no formal background in AI and Machine Learning (ML). GPT-3 had raised the bar, not just in terms of the technology, but also in terms of AI accessibility.

GPT-3 is a general-purpose language processing AI model that practically anybody can understand and start using in a matter of minutes. You don't need a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in computer science—you don't even need to know how to write code. In fact, everything you'll need to get started is right here in this book. We'll begin in this chapter with the following topics:

  • Introduction to GPT-3
  • Democratizing NLP
  • Understanding prompts, completions, and tokens
  • Introducing Davinci, Babbage, Curie, and Ada
  • Understanding GPT-3 risks

Technical requirements

This chapter requires you to have access to the OpenAI Application Programming Interface (API). You can register for API access by visiting https://openai.com/.

Introduction to GPT-3

In short, GPT-3 is a language model: a statistical model that calculates the probability distribution over a sequence of words. In other words, GPT-3 is a system for guessing which text comes next when text is given as an input.

Now, before we delve further into what GPT-3 is, let's cover a brief introduction (or refresher) on Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Simplifying NLP

NLP is a branch of AI that focuses on the use of natural human language for various computing applications. NLP is a broad category that encompasses many different types of language processing tasks, including sentiment analysis, speech recognition, machine translation, text generation, and text summarization, to name but a few.

In NLP, language models are used to calculate the probability distribution over a sequence of words. Language models are essential because of the extremely complex and nuanced nature of human languages. For example, pay in full and painful or tee time and teatime sound alike but have very different meanings. A phrase such as she's on fire could be literal or figurative, and words such as big and large can be used interchangeably in some cases but not in others—for example, using the word big to refer to an older sibling wouldn't have the same meaning as using the word large. Thus, language models are used to deal with this complexity, but that's easier said than done.

While understanding things such as word meanings and their appropriate usage seems trivial to humans, NLP tasks can be challenging for machines. This is especially true for more complex language processing tasks such as recognizing irony or sarcasm—tasks that even challenge humans at times.

Today, the best technical approach to a given NLP task depends on the task. So, most of the best-performing, state-of-the-art (SOTA) NLP systems are specialized systems that have been fine-tuned for a single purpose or a narrow range of tasks. Ideally, however, a single system could successfully handle any NLP task. That's the goal of GPT-3: to provide a general-purpose AI system for NLP. So, even though the best-performing NLP systems today tend to be specialized, purpose-built systems, GPT-3 achieves SOTA performance on a number of common NLP tasks, showing the potential for a future general-purpose NLP system that could provide SOTA performance for any NLP task.

What exactly is GPT-3?

Although GPT-3 is a general-purpose NLP system, it really just does one thing: it predicts what comes next based on the text that is provided as input. But it turns out that, with the right architecture and enough data, this one thing can handle a stunning array of language processing tasks.

GPT-3 is the third version of the GPT language model from OpenAI. So, although it started to become popular in the summer of 2020, the first version of GPT was announced 2 years earlier, and the following version, GPT-2, was announced in February 2019. But even though GPT-3 is the third version, the general system design and architecture hasn't changed much from GPT-2. There is one big difference, however, and that's the size of the dataset that was used for training.

GPT-3 was trained with a massive dataset comprised of text from the internet, books, and other sources, containing roughly 57 billion words and 175 billion parameters. That's 10 times larger than GPT-2 and the next-largest language model. To put the model size into perspective, the average human might read, write, speak, and hear upward of a billion words in an entire lifetime. So, GPT-3 has been trained on an estimated 57 times the number of words most humans will ever process.

The GPT-3 language model is massive, so it isn't something you'll be downloading and dabbling with on your laptop. But even if you could (which you can't because it's not available to download), it would cost millions of dollars in computing resources each time you wanted to build the model. This would put GPT-3 out of reach for most small companies and virtually all individuals if you had to rely on your own computer resource to use it. Thankfully, you don't. OpenAI makes GPT-3 available through an API that is both affordable and easy to use. So, anyone can use some of the most advanced AI ever created!

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Key benefits

  • Understand the power of potential GPT-3 language models and the risks involved
  • Explore core GPT-3 use cases such as text generation, classification, and semantic search using engaging examples
  • Plan and prepare a GPT-3 application for the OpenAI review process required for publishing a live application

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Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) is a highly advanced language model from OpenAI that can generate written text that is virtually indistinguishable from text written by humans. Whether you have a technical or non-technical background, this book will help you understand and start working with GPT-3 and the OpenAI API. If you want to get hands-on with leveraging artificial intelligence for natural language processing (NLP) tasks, this easy-to-follow book will help you get started. Beginning with a high-level introduction to NLP and GPT-3, the book takes you through practical examples that show how to leverage the OpenAI API and GPT-3 for text generation, classification, and semantic search. You'll explore the capabilities of the OpenAI API and GPT-3 and find out which NLP use cases GPT-3 is best suited for. You’ll also learn how to use the API and optimize requests for the best possible results. With examples focusing on the OpenAI Playground and easy-to-follow JavaScript and Python code samples, the book illustrates the possible applications of GPT-3 in production. By the end of this book, you'll understand the best use cases for GPT-3 and how to integrate the OpenAI API in your applications for a wide array of NLP tasks.

Who is this book for?

Exploring GPT-3 is for anyone interested in natural language processing or learning GPT-3 with or without a technical background. Developers, product managers, entrepreneurs, and hobbyists looking to get to grips with NLP, AI, and GPT-3 will find this book useful. Basic computer skills are all you need to get the most out of this book.

What you will learn

  • Understand what GPT-3 is and how it can be used for various NLP tasks
  • Get a high-level introduction to GPT-3 and the OpenAI API
  • Implement JavaScript and Python code examples that call the OpenAI API
  • Structure GPT-3 prompts and options to get the best possible results
  • Select the right GPT-3 engine or model to optimize for speed and cost-efficiency
  • Find out which use cases would not be suitable for GPT-3
  • Create a GPT-3-powered knowledge base application that follows OpenAI guidelines

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Chapter 1: Introducing GPT-3 and the OpenAI API Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 2: GPT-3 Applications and Use Cases Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Chapter 3: Working with the OpenAI Playground Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Chapter 5: Calling the OpenAI API in Code Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Chapter 6: Content Filtering Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 7: Generating and Transforming Text Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 8: Classifying and Categorizing Text Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 9: Building a GPT-3-Powered Question-Answering App Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Thought this was well laid out and well written. Outdated? Of course, there will be changes for example to the pricing of GTP-3, but these are small points. I thought the writers did a great job of explaining a complex topic - loved it
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Melanie Sep 19, 2021
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I'm a content designer/UX writer, not a developer. So when I heard about GPT-3, I was very intrigued about what this might mean for the future of my profession.I wanted to try to build an app using GPT-3 to generate content, but I didn't know enough about code to even get started. Learning code was incredibly slow going. I wondered, was there a quick and easy way to get a GPT-3 web app up and running?This book was exactly what I needed. It takes you step by step through the process of using GPT-3's API to make queries, and shows you how to make a basic web front end. I learned a lot about Node.js while building, too. If you're a developer, you'll probably find this book too basic. But for my purposes, it was perfect.Love this book! Thanks Steve.
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marc waesche Jul 24, 2022
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A really very good structured document about the technical background and the usage of GPT-3! Unfortunatelly the very first review here (at least for me) was rather negative pointing to the fact that all informations in this book can also be found on the openAI website OR with a Google search. Of course! Show me a technical book which contains secrets you can not find anywhere in the internet! A technical book helps the owner to find things fast. That's it!
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Matthew Emerick Aug 27, 2021
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About This BookThis book looks into how GPT-3 and how to interact with it. Examples are given in both Python and Javascript, though you don’t need any more than the given code to work the examples. There are a large number of examples included and a lot of advice on how to get the most out of one of the largest NLP models that exists.Who Is This For?The main audience for this book is anyone who wants to use GPT-3 in their software or website. One of the best parts of the book is that you don’t need to be technically inclined to any of the examples. But if you are a software developer, you can do a lot with GPT-3.OrganizationThere are three sections: introduction, getting started, and digging into the API. The book starts with everything you need to prepare for the remainder of the rest of the book. The final chapter details considerations if you intend to put your GPT-3 work into production. All in all, the layout is solid. Each chapter is kept simple, starting with the technical requirements and ending with a summary.Did This Book Succeed?This book really is everything included in this book, as the GPT-3 API is simple. By reading this book, you’ll know everything you’ll need to implement GPT-3 in nearly any way you choose. I can’t think of anything that is missing or and superfluous material.Rating and Final ThoughtsOverall, I give this book a 4.5 out of 5.Technically, GPT-3 is simple enough for a series of blog entries, so I have to question the need for this book. However, the author did an excellent job in keeping everything to the point and making sure you knew how much your inquiries are going to cost you. It’s well written with both fun and serious examples to show you the power and the drawbacks of GPT-3.
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This is an excellent introduction to the transformative GPT-3 conversational AI platform - essentially allowing someone with zero to little technical knowledge to be able to navigate use-cases like chatbots and AI-based text comprehension. The book is split into three parts, with the first two talking about the basics of the technology (what is API, how to use it, Curl/Postman etc.), and how to get started with the OpenAI public beta. In addition, there is a choice of languages with most examples available in both Javascript & Python - so you can use whatever works for you. The 3rd section will be something that advanced users might want to start with straightaway - with immediate use-cases being highlighted with full code availability. Essentially, for a book that works almost entirely on an API - there is a tremendous amount of content which would be useful for anyone who is even tangentially interested in exploring where AI in text is going. Highly recommended
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