ChatGPT & OpenAI APIs: The Comprehensive Guide

Explore how ChatGPT functions as a trained language model that understands language and generates responses. See how pre-training and transformers process inputs and support programming languages Python, JavaScript, and Java.

Explore ChatGPT use cases across summarizing content, writing marketing copy and SEO, building support chatbots, code completion, semantic search, and creative writing, with future lectures expanding these ideas.

Create a chat.openai.com account via email or single sign-on, and toggle between GPT-4 and GPT-3.5, with free users accessing basic GPT-3.4, plus creating new chats, prompts, and settings.

Compare free and plus ChatGPT subscriptions to weigh priority access, shorter peak wait times, and the monthly fee; note API access is tied to plus later in the course.

Explore the brief history of artificial intelligence from the 1950s through the 2020s, tracing evolution from theorem-solving programs to transformers driving ChatGPT, GPT-3/4, and natural language processing.

Define what ChatGPT is and how it works, explore its use cases, compare free and paid subscriptions, and present a brief AI history with hands-on practice creating an account.

Move forward and decode the transformers, going deeper to understand the anatomy of ChatGPT now.

Explore neural networks and the transformer architecture, including encoders, decoders, and self-attention, to understand how ChatGPT processes language through training and context.

Understand that ChatGPT processes tokens, not text, and tokens differ from characters. Explore the OpenAI tokenizer tool to view token counts and IDs, and grasp token-based pricing for OpenAI APIs.

Explore the capabilities and limitations of ChatGPT, including context-aware conversations, adaptive responses, and training-based bounds up to 2021, with language limitations and honest unknowns.

Explore hands-on content creation with ChatGPT to craft a blog post about papayas as a nutrient-packed superfood, exploring their vitamins, digestive enzymes, and anti-inflammatory benefits.

Craft prompts to generate a persona for content creation with ChatGPT, choose an industry, and create emails or marketing content, then share results in the course forum.

Create a children's book with ChatGPT, from idea generation and niche selection to drafting outlines and publishing-ready chapters. Refine target audiences, themes, and chapter titles through iterative prompts.

Design a memorable main character with ChatGPT for a children's book, introduce Max the Monkey, describe appearance and traits, rewrite outlines, and craft a richer story.

Write the opening chapter, introduce the main character Max, set the jungle scene, and establish the central conflict or goal of the story using the outline above.

Discover how to write a complete story with ChatGPT by outlining, prompting for dialogue, and revising to enhance flow and the moral of unity and friendship.

Divide the story into seven chapters with ChatGPT and prepare a children's book for publishing on platforms like Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, with cover design tips using Canva.

Learn rapid skills acquisition with ChatGPT by designing beginner-friendly practice routines to master classical guitar reading music, using targeted prompts, schedules, and curated resources.

Identify pain points to enable rapid skill acquisition with ChatGPT, using a step-by-step guide to reading music for classical guitar beginners, from staff basics to sight-reading and practice routines.

Learn how to generate and explain code with ChatGPT, from a simple for loop in JavaScript to a tic toc toe game in Python, and run it locally.

Learn how to create a Java password generator with ChatGPT, including generatePassword method and a hashPassword method using SHA-256, with salted hashing, secure RNG, and tested code you can run.

Generate a simple modern one-page portfolio page using HTML and CSS with ChatGPT, then test and refine the layout and typography.

Build a weather web app with JavaScript, html, and css that shows live data for major cities using free APIs such as OpenWeatherMap, including highs, lows, winds, and unit options.

Learn to ideate, validate, and prototype a SaaS product with ChatGPT, including niche targeting for individualized learning plans, MVP feature selection, and basic frontend development steps.

Learn what a prompt is and how prompt engineering shapes the results you get from ChatGPT by crafting instructions that guide the model toward your goals.

Identify prompt components such as instruction, question, context, inputs, and examples to guide ChatGPT, then apply prompt engineering to craft optimal prompts for reliable results.

Explore prompt breakdown for ChatGPT and OpenAI API prompts, detailing instruction, context, input data, and output indicator to craft optimal, actionable prompts.

Explore the elements of a well-structured prompt, including instruction, input data, and output indicators, and learn prompt engineering frameworks to craft optimal prompts for ChatGPT.

Explore frameworks for prompt engineering, including clarifying objectives, iterative refinement, reverse engineering, and instruction-based and conversational context methods to craft optimal prompts for ChatGPT.

Master the clarifying objective framework to craft clear prompts with direct objectives, producing a comprehensive yet easy-to-understand guide, illustrated by a World War II overview for high school students.

Master the iterative refinement framework to negotiate with ChatGPT, refining prompts to produce precise, succinct results and structured, elevator-pitch style summaries.

Apply the reverse engineering framework to design prompts that guide ChatGPT toward a desired result, mapping causes, key events, and the global aftermath.

Learn the question/answer framework to prompt ChatGPT directly with questions, get clear answers, and iteratively refine prompts to craft objective, optimal responses.

Explain the instruction-based framework by giving ChatGPT explicit, detailed, structured instructions to shape outcomes, using World War II's global power shifts, technological advances, and societal transformations as the example.

Learn the conversational context framework to continue a chat thread with the same subject, using prompts and follow-ups on World War II and its impact on Africa.

Apply the narrowing down framework: start broad, then narrow to the conversational context to identify main points, refining prompts with ChatGPT to focus the issue.

Explore the role play framework to tailor explanations for any audience, from a fifth grader to Einstein, showcasing prompt engineering and how ChatGPT adapts explanations like photosynthesis.

Master the feedback loop framework by turning a prompt's output into the next input, enabling multi-turn conversations powered by clear context and iterative refinement.

Apply the emotion-driven framework to craft prompts that evoke specific emotional responses in ChatGPT, using heartwarming cues to guide a story about a boy restoring self-confidence.

Explore the hypothesis testing framework by crafting a hypothesis and letting ChatGPT generate supporting and contradicting arguments, demonstrating prompt engineering to probe ideas.

Apply the comparative framework to prompt ChatGPT to compare topics by history, musical structure, and cultural impact, narrowing prompts for precise, structured results using classical music and rock as examples.

Explore the assumptive framework for prompting ChatGPT by crafting prompts with initial assumptions, like a Mars colony, and refining questions to reveal differences in gravity, atmosphere, and daily life.

Explore the perspective switching framework to craft prompts for ChatGPT, delivering blockchain explanations to a computer scientist and a 10-year-old with analogies, covering decentralization, cryptography, and smart contracts, via refinement.

Explore how to generate image content with AI from text prompts, using Midjourney and other tools, and learn setup, commands, upscaling, variations, and saving outputs.

Discover Midjourney, an AI tool that generates images from text, compare it with DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, and explore setup, prompts, and use cases like blogs, books, and print-on-demand products.

Learn to generate AI images with Midjourney using the imagine command in Discord, craft prompts, upscale or vary outputs, and understand commercial usage rights.

Learn how to craft the best prompts for Midjourney and use aspect ratio parameters like ar 2:3, 3:2, 4:5, and 9:16 to control image framing and generation.

Save Midjourney images by opening in browser or right-click save image, rename them, and download; upscale with U3 and access the version five engine in the app.

Explore the midjourney chaos parameter, learning how zero chaos yields predictable images while higher chaos increases diversity and unpredictability, with examples like a banana doing yoga.

Compare chaos levels side-by-side in image generation by showcasing --c 0, --c 50, and --c 100 to reveal how higher chaos yields more unpredictable images, while zero chaos preserves the original prompt.

Set the midjourney quality parameter (q) to control processing time, not resolution; values from 0.25 to 1 trade speed for detail, with higher values using more GPU minutes.

Master the stop parameter in Midjourney and see how stopping at 43 yields unfinished, blurry art. Stopping at 70 offers a more finished look, while 100 completes the image.

Learn how Midjourney's stylize parameter (--s) controls artfulness, with 0 being less artistic and 1000 highly artistic, guiding how closely images follow the prompt and its colors.

Discover how the Midjourney tile parameter creates a seamless repeating tile for fabrics and wallpapers, and how to upscale, download, and verify tiling with an online checker for market-ready patterns.

Learn how to set Midjourney versions and settings, use slash commands like /info, and compare 5.2, 5.1, and Niji models to tailor prompts and outputs.

Explore the Midjourney no prompt parameter to exclude items like coconut trees, people, or grass from an image, as shown with monkeys in the jungle.

Master Midjourney's basic prompt parameters—aspect ratio, chaos, quality, stop, stylize, tile, engine version, and the no parameter—to mix and match across prompts to create stunning images.

Explore Midjourney prompting techniques for image generation, including passing images in prompts, separating concepts, and using engines, themes, design styles, artistic mediums, lighting, and realistic photos.

Learn how to pass image URLs in prompts to Midjourney, combine image prompts with text prompts and parameters, and generate new visuals from uploaded or linked images.

Discover how to separate two concepts in a prompt using weights in Midjourney, including multi-prompts like surf::2 and cup vs cake to shape outputs.

Enhance Midjourney prompts by using themes like realistic, surrealism, dreamy, futuristic, retro, fantasy, sci-fi, and cartoon to generate polished, imaginative images.

Apply Midjourney themes in your domain by crafting detailed prompts that balance realism, fantasy, surrealism, and other styles to guide the bot.

Explore applying a range of Midjourney design styles, including minimalistic, detailed, multiplex, and gothic, to craft vivid, realistic prompts like a detailed modern computer or a minimalistic office.

Explore how Midjourney engines shape image style by selecting Unreal, Pixar, IMAX, and others across 4k, 8k, 16k resolutions and 2–16 bit depths, with hands-on prompts to craft engine-specific visuals.

Explore prompt techniques to shape images using drawing and art mediums like sketch, line art, caricature, charcoal, coloring book, graffiti, and stickers, with hands-on practice in Midjourney.

Lighting shapes mood and realism in prompts for photography and film, with options like spotlight, sunlight, starlight, neon light, and soft or hard light.

Discover how Midjourney v5 creates realistic photos with prompts and Hasselblad camera settings. Craft prompts to control skin tones, lighting, and sharp detail for lifelike images.

Master prompt engineering to drive ChatGPT and Midjourney outputs, practicing techniques like lighting and design to create versatile images for wall art, ebooks, blogs, and merchandise.