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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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  • 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.

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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.

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  • 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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James Mar 25, 2022
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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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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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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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Calum Sep 14, 2021
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Steve provides an incredibly valuable map in an increasingly hard to navigate space. GPT-3 and the OpenAI API serve as a new type of platform that is destined to breed innovation, and this book is a great starting point to understanding and working with the API.The book does a tremendous job detailing the intricacies and various capabilities of GPT-3 broadly, in an easy to understand way that isn't weighed down by too much jargon. If you've worked with software development before (particularly experience working with API's), you should have no problem understanding this book.If you have even a mild interest in either the capabilities of GPT-3 or how you could leverage it yourself, I highly recommend this read.Disclosure: I received this book for free.
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soleey Sep 28, 2021
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I will admit, I was a bit hesitant at first thinking this would be another book written for developers in dev-speak that would require the reader to have back knowledge in code concepts etc to really get practical value of it. And as a no-coder, it would be less useful for me. (I needed more of a ‘GPT-3 for Dummies’ version. Well I was pleasantly surprised that this was NOT the case.In fact, I would recommend this book particularly for no-coders & low-coders interested in AI and wanting to use it (if not today, someday) or just trying to get a grasp around what is currently available out there. And here’s why… If a developer read the docs on OpenAi’s webpage for GPT-3, they would get it..and know how to implement and use it, because.. using apis and curl and python etc is part of their jargon. When I tried, I understood the concepts yes…but still didn’t know how I would actually use it to make something work beyond experimenting in the GPT-3 playground on the OpenAI website. ‘Exploring GPT-3’ bridged that gap for me in a number of ways.Here’s what Steve & Bret did exceptionally well in this book:1. Broke down the concepts, constraints, and use cases akin to ‘Tell it to me like I’m a 5th Grader’… (which may have actually been him running the text through GPT-3 for the right copy to include in the book. Lol.) But seriously, the concepts, and explanations are very accessible and understandable.2. Lots of exercises and step-by-step practice in using the OpenAI API which not only gives you experience using it (in an API application like postman or paw, or in code like nodeJs and python), but removes a lot of fear around this being ‘too dev’ for me to be able to use on my own as a newbie in the AI world.3. More than 15 Code projects in both of the most popular web languages (javascript & python), which are usually the 2 that people learning web dev start with, so this makes it something that they can use immediately and repeatedly as a step in their own coding journey (rather than a detour away from it). If you haven’t picked one yet, and wanted to test the water… this book gives you a great feel for both in a way that you can easily compare which works better for you. (I decided on going the javascript route)4. He even talks beyond the pure code part of using the API into considerations and requirements you will face when it comes time to get your application approved to use in the real world. So it is a real end to end curriculum to get anyone up and running creating their GPT-3 project and launching it to the world.And of course, having a solid foundation and orientation through this book, digesting and using the official OpenAI docs is a lot easier, and I know how to make sense and use them now. (Which will come in handy as I tackle fine tuning soon (which was released sometime after the book was completed).Final words of advice, even though you can just read through it and get it…definitely actually type out the code and get it up and working (if you are a new to coding or no-coder like I am). The practice and gaining familiarity in using the API, will be a skill you will use in your no-code projects for sure.Well that’s my tl;dr. for those considering it… it’s worth it. For developers, your mileage may vary if you understand the OpenAI documentation directly, but for everyone else this is a great onramp to get started beyond the OpenAI playground and actually build your first application using the OpenAI API.-€
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