
ChatGPT API 101 — A Beginner’s Guide
Last Updated on July 17, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Skanda Vivek
Originally published on Towards AI.
OpenAI just released the ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) API! This tutorial goes into the various ways you can use the ChatGPT API to turbo-charge your application.
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OpenAI just released their ChatGPT API (called GPT-3.5). This is a game changer for developers and businesses that are actively using the ChatGPT web app or using the older GPT-3 APIs like Davinci to serve customers.
And the best part — it is 1/10th the cost of their GPT-3 Davinci model!
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Let’s dive into how to use the ChatGPT API for different use cases.
import openaiopenai.api_key ="blah"completion = openai.ChatCompletion.create( model="gpt-3.5-turbo", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello, how are you?"}])completion['choices'][0]["message"]["content"]
This is the response:
As an AI language model, I don’t have feelings so I cannot experience emotions like humans. However, I… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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