Introduction and prerequisites

0:00 welcome to this comprehensive course on open AIS assistance API which allows developers to build powerful AI assistance capable of performing a variety of tasks this course covers essential topics like integrating the API for advanced functionalities leveraging its knowledge retrieval and code interpretation capabilities and understanding the fundamentals of large language models through Hands-On projects with streamlet and real world examples you'll gain practical skills to build respon responsive AI enhanced applications by the end you'll be able to use the assistance API to transform your web apps into Dynamic smart platforms hello and welcome to this course my name is Paulo deson I am a software engineer so I teach people how to become software Engineers developers and build applications and I've also taught over 250,000 students on various skills from programming build apps AI as well as Cloud engineering so welcome to this course the next question is what is it that you're going to be learning in this course well in this course you're going to be learning about the assistant API essentially you're going to learn about functional calls you're going to

1:10 learn about retrieval mechanisms and of course you're going to be building a lot of stuff going through this course because that is how I like to introduce certain Concepts to my students so that's part of the what you're going to be expecting in this course and of course I'll be talking about large language models embeddings and all these things that relate to AI specifically okay now let's talk about the prerequisites for this course so I expect you to at least have the basics of programming of course I don't expect to be an expert or anything as long as you have some fundamentals of programming be it on JavaScript or any other modernish programming language you should be fine going uh through this course and one thing to keep in mind is that unfortunately this is not a one-on-one programming course I'm not going to teach you how to progam program rather I'll focus on the big picture idea of assistance API and large language models so we're going to be using python in this course so if you've never used python you don't even know what python is that's okay that's not the main thing here the main thing is that I want you to understand how this technology how assistance API and how

2:20 large language models how AI based applications are built that is the main goal here so don't worry you'll be fine as long as you want to learn and you follow along what I'm going to be doing the other thing also remember that you'll have access to all of that code in the description below okay now let's go ahead and look into python setup and essentially the environment setup so