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Tools and capabilities

Tools and capabilities - OpenAI API Tutorial

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Tools and capabilities

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- Function calling and tool use transformed the way we think about these generative AI tools. Before they were introduced, generative AI was basically AI chat. Once we had function calling and the chatbot was able to fire off external functions and start doing things in our software, everything changed. And in the agent SDK tool, calling is front and center, not only for your custom functions but also for some very useful built-in functions. Specifically as of this recording, there are three hosted tools you can use out of the box. They are WebSearchTool, which allows the agent to go on the web, make searches, and return information to you in whatever format you want, including with information about the original URL, the full original text, summaries, or whatever you desire. A FileSearchTool that allows you to retrieve files from the OpenAI Vector Store, meaning you use the API to upload files into OpenAI and then you can use this tool to go through those files to find information…

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