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Interactive examples

OpenAI has an Examples page on their website, where you can find many interactive examples of GPT-3 use cases.

The Examples page has many GPT-3 examples that can be loaded in the Playground

Exploring these examples will help you better understand what GPT-3 is able to do. When you click an example, it will open in the Playground, where you can see all the settings and make changes to see what happens.

Let's look at a couple of specific examples, and use those examples to talk more about how GPT-3 works.

Essay Outline Generator​

Quick link: Essay Outline Generator

The text displayed in the input area is known as the prompt. The prompt is the text that gets sent to GPT-3 when you click the Submit button.

The simplest prompt is just a piece of text that has a command to "do something". In this example, the command is to "Create an outline for an essay".

When you submit a prompt, GPT-3 generates a completion.

The completion is the part shown in green.

Experiments to try:

  • Change Nikola Tesla to Bill Gates? How does this change the result?
  • If you change technology to developing nations how does that affect the ouput?
  • What happens if you reduce the Maximum length to 60?

Micro Horror Story Creator​

Quick link: Micro Horror Story Creator

The prompt can be written so that it gives GPT-3 an idea of what you're expecting it to generate. If you give it a pattern to follow, it will continue and complete that pattern.

This example prompt shows a pattern of a topic followed by a two-sentence horror story.

The prompt ends with an empty space for a new horror story to be filled in, following the same pattern.

Experiments to try:

  • Change the temperature slider to zero. What happens?
  • Select a different model. How does this change the generated text?

Sarcastic Chatbot​

Quick link: Marv the Sarcastic Chatbot

The prompt can also combine concepts, like in this example where it defines some background information followed by a pattern to complete.

This is a common prompt design for writing chatbots, as it allows you to "set the scene" for the bot, and also give it some examples of how you expect it to interact with anyone it talks to.