Building a Chatbot with GPT-3

Learn how to build advanced and human-like chatbots using GPT-3

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Chatbots have become an integral part of modern businesses as they offer an automated, instant and personal way of communicating with customers. OpenAI’s GPT-3 (Generative Pretrained Transformer 3) is one of the most advanced language models that can be used to build chatbots. It has a massive database of knowledge that enables it to generate human-like responses to various questions and requests.

I’ll show you how to build a chatbot using OpenAI’s GPT-3 API. The API allows developers to interact with the GPT-3 language model and receive responses in natural language. The API can be accessed via an API key, which can be obtained from OpenAI.

Let's begin.

Let’s start by installing the OpenAI API client for Python

pip install openai

Next, you’ll need to create an API key in the OpenAI website to access the API. Once you have the API key, you can use it to make requests to the API using the following code snippet:

import openai

openai.api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY"

def generate_text(prompt):
    completions = openai.Completion.create(
        engine="text-davinci-002",
        prompt=prompt,
        max_tokens=1024,
        n=1…