OpenAI & API Setup - Introduction

Introduction

Welcome to your first lesson of the module “Text Generation with OpenAI!” In this lesson, you’ll learn the basics of setting up your development environment for OpenAI API calls. You’ll get to know the basic details of the OpenAI API, including pricing, rate limits and the variety of models they offer. You’ll also get an introduction to Jupyter Lab, which will be used as the IDE in this module.

If you feel overwhelmed, it’s perfectly normal. Go slow, step by step, and you’ll make it. You’re just a few lessons away from grasping the concepts and making practical use of them. At the end of this lesson, you’ll:

• Understand the basics of cloud-based AI services and OpenAI’s offerings.
• Create an OpenAI platform account and obtain API keys.
• Implement secure API key authentication in a Python environment.
• Understand what tokens are.
• Get hands-on with Jupyter Lab.

Theory only gets you so far, your next step awaits!