OpenAI Just Introduced Function Callings Feature: Everything You Need to Know
Last Updated on June 28, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Youssef Hosni
Originally published on Towards AI.
The Most Powerful Update to Their API Since Its Release
OpenAI has released new updates to its API and they are astonishing. The most important one of them is the function calling feature. Using the function callings feature, we can now have the model decide which function it needs to call to solve a specific problem. This is a killer feature that was only available before by using Langchain.
To have a better understanding of the importance of it let's take a practical example before diving into it. Let’s say you own a bookstore and you use one of these models to answer customer requests. And one day one customer asks… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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