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Exercise

Your first API request!

Throughout the course, you'll write Python code to interact with the OpenAI API. As a first step, you'll need to create your own API key. API keys used in this course's exercises will not be stored in any way.

To create a key, you'll first need to create an OpenAI account by visiting their signup page. Next, navigate to the API keys page to create your secret key.

The button to create a new secret key.

OpenAI sometimes provides free credits for the API, but this can differ depending on geography. You may also need to add debit/credit card details. You'll need less than $1 credit to complete this course.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Import the openai library.
  • Create your API key and assign it to openai.api_key.
  • Create a request to the Completion endpoint.
  • Specify that the request should use the gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct model.