It’s been pretty hard to avoid all of the incredible stories about
artificial
intelligence over
the past few months. There seem to be incredible applications to the area of
generative
AI
occurring on a daily basis. Image generation with
Midjourney is pretty next-level. Code generation
using GitHub Copilot seems
pretty amazing. Interacting with large language models like
GPT-4 or Bard
or Bing Chat or Facebook
LLaMA or
StableLM
and so many others seems like science fiction. Audio models like
Whisper used for audio transcription
even make popular audio assistants look pretty dated.
With all of the hype, it seemed inevitable that
Factor would gain some kind of AI functionality.
Despite the non-profit vs for-profit controversy of
OpenAI,
they do seem to have a momentary lead in the race to make tools that others
can build upon. One of those tools is the OpenAI
API, which is made available
using JSON and
HTTP.
Besides the OpenAI API
Reference, there is an
OpenAI Cookbook and popular
libraries such as OpenAI Python
for building systems using it.
Recently, I contributed the openai
vocabulary
which allows using all the methods currently made available by
OpenAI. You will need an OpenAI API
Key.
Once you obtain that,
you can set it in the
listener.
IN: scratchpad USE: openai
IN: scratchpad "sk-....................." openai-api-key set-global
And now you have enough to try it out…
IN: scratchpad "text-davinci-003"
"what is the factor programming language"
<completion> 100 >>max_tokens create-completion
"choices" of first "text" of print
Factor is a stack-oriented programming language, designed for creating
flexible, reusable software components. It combines elements from both
object-oriented and functional programming, and provides powerful features,
including static typing and static type checking, an interactive program
development environment, built-in automated testing, and a wide range of
built-in data types. The language is designed to be easy to use, yet provide
a high degree of flexibility.
Cool!
We even have a Discord bot using
OpenAI
that answers on the Factor Discord server.
