Experimenting with the OpenAI API Playground
In this section, we will use OpenAI’s graphical user interface (GUI) Playground to quickly view our results for a given preset, which represents a combination of a model and the selected call parameters. This interface is an excellent tool for rapid experimentation and for comparing models before implementing them programmatically in our software.
To access the Playground, ensure that your OpenAI account has credits applied to unlock tier 1, as explained in Chapter 2. Then, go to https://platform.openai.com/playground/chat. You can also reach it by navigating to the home page, https://platform.openai.com, selecting Playground from the top-right menu, and then choosing the Chat option from the left menu. The opening screen of the Playground is shown in Figure 11.3:
Figure 11.3: Opening screen of the Playground interface for OpenAI
On this page, we can craft prompts for OpenAI, as introduced in Chapter 2, and try different...
