Building Systems with the ChatGPT API
by DeepLearning.AI + OpenAI
Building Systems with the ChatGPT API is a free, 2-hour course that teaches you to chain multiple AI calls together to build automated workflows. You learn to build systems where AI classifies, processes, and responds to inputs in a pipeline — going well beyond single prompts. This is the most practical short course for developers who want to integrate ChatGPT into real applications. It requires basic Python, but opens the door to automation systems that save significant time in any knowledge-work environment.
What you will learn
- How to chain multiple AI calls to build multi-step automated workflows
- Input classification: routing different types of user queries to the right response path
- Output moderation: checking AI responses before they reach end users
- How to build a customer service automation system using the ChatGPT API
- Evaluation frameworks: how to test that your AI system actually works as intended
Who is this for
- Developers who want to build real applications on top of the ChatGPT API
- Python programmers who want to automate knowledge work with AI tools
- People who completed ChatGPT Prompt Engineering and want to go further technically
- Technical product managers and engineers building AI-powered tools and products
Why we recommend it
- 1Free and done in 2 hours — one of the fastest high-value courses on this list
- 2Co-created with OpenAI — the team that built and operates ChatGPT
- 3Covers real automation patterns used in production AI systems today
- 4Teaches evaluation methods — how to actually know if your AI system works correctly
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