ChatGPT can do pretty much anything, but sometimes that's a weakness rather than a strength. In some cases, you want an AI tool with a narrower focus that's personalized to a specific task. That's where AI assistants come in.
In this code-along, Richie shows you how to use the OpenAI API and GPT-4o to create an AI assistant for data science tasks. You'll see how to provide custom instructions, send files and data to it, and work with its multimodal capabilities. Overall, you'll get a sense of how to make use of AI assistants to automate repetitive tasks and see how they can be used in a data science workflow.
Key Takeaways:
Learn how to create and customize AI assistants with the OpenAI API and GPT-4o.
Learn about advanced features like working with files and images.
Understand how AI assistants can be used in data science.
Learn about OpenAI’s GPT-4o, a multimodal AI model that processes text, audio, and visual data, and discover how it compares with GPT-4 Turbo for various use cases.
To connect through the GPT-4o API, obtain your API key from OpenAI, install the OpenAI Python library, and use it to send requests and receive responses from the GPT-4o models.
Richie, a Senior Data Evangelist at DataCamp, shows you how to use the function calling features in the OpenAI API and GPT-4o to create a simple AI assistant that has a natural language interface.