Harness the power of AI from OpenAI's models by creating requests to their API with just a few lines of code. Discover the wide range of capabilities available via the OpenAI API. Learn about the best practices for managing API usage across the business by utilizing API organizations.

What is the OpenAI API?

Applications built on the OpenAI API

Your first OpenAI API request!

Making requests to the OpenAI API

Building an OpenAI API request

Specifying an OpenAI model

Digging into the response

Introduction to the OpenAI API

OpenAI's GPT series of language models have created headlines the world over. In this chapter, you'll generate and refine text, classify content with AI,  analyze sentiment,  and explore shot prompting to optimize response outputs.

Summarizing and editing text

Find and replace

Text summarization

Calculating the cost

Text generation

Content generation

Generating a product description

Shot prompting

Zero-shot prompting with reviews

One-shot prompting: will it be enough?

Few-shot prompting: all the examples!

Prompting OpenAI Models

Time to create your very own AI-powered chatbot! You'll learn how to write effective system messages, provide examples in the form of user and assistant messages, and integrate a message history to retain context between prompts.

Chat roles and system messages

Utilizing systems messages

Adding guardrails

Utilizing the assistant role

Chat messages

Structuring chat messages

Adding assistant messages

More assistant messages!

Multi-turn conversations with GPT

Creating a conversation history

Creating an AI chatbot

Congratulations!

Building Conversations with the OpenAI API

Over recent years, OpenAI has emerged as a market leader in creating AI models, such as GPT-4o, and releasing them to the wider community in applications like ChatGPT. These models can transform not only the way you work but also the products and services that businesses provide to customers. To begin extracting business value from OpenAI's models, you'll need to learn to work with their Application Programming Interface, or API. In this course, you'll gain hands-on experience working with the OpenAI API in Python, and will explore the wide range of functionality that the API provides. By the end of the course, you'll have the skills and knowledge needed to leverage the power of the OpenAI API to develop solutions to real-world problems.

<h2>Discover How to Access AI Models from the OpenAI API</h2>
Over recent years, OpenAI has emerged as a market leader in creating AI models, such as GPT-4, and releasing them to the wider community through applications like ChatGPT. These models can transform not only the way you work but also the products and services that businesses provide to customers.
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To begin extracting business value from OpenAI's models, you'll need to learn to work with their Application Programming Interface, or API. Throughout the course, you'll learn to use Python code to send requests to use OpenAI's models.
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<h2>Solve Real-World Problems Using AI Models</h2>
The AI models accessible through the OpenAI API have a wide range of potential applications. In this course, you'll use AI to generate and transform text content, perform sentiment analysis and categorization, create audio transcriptions, build your very own chatbot, and even start automating complex tasks like creating summarized meeting notes from meeting recordings.
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<h2>Begin Developing AI Applications</h2>
As AI becomes more accessible to individuals and organizations, the bar for developing AI-driven product features and automations continues to fall. Right now, every organization has the capability to begin using AI to streamline business processes and develop more personalized customer experiences. The OpenAI API provides easy access for software engineers and developers to start integrating AI into new applications and systems.

Intermediate Python

Start your journey developing AI-powered applications with the OpenAI API. Learn about the functionality that underpins popular AI applications like ChatGPT.

Working with the OpenAI API

Associate AI Engineer for Developers

Developing AI Applications

OpenAI Fundamentals

{"role": "system",
 "content": "You are a patient and informative teacher."}

{"role": "user",
 "content": "I'm really struggling with a coding problem."}

{"role": "assistant",
 "content": "Don't worry, we'll get you sorted! How can I help?"}

{"role": "user",
 "content": "How do I access dictionary values using their keys?"}

Structuring chat messages

Working with the OpenAI API

Hands-on interactive exercise