which AI service to use in order to translate a natural human language to an API call?

Question

Hello,

I would like to build a bot that would be able not only to assist in using our system but also do simple tasks e..g.

Add a new product to the system of the type 'pencil' with the name 'the Contoso latest pencil', manufacture 'Contoso'.

The result would be REST API call '[POST] /api/<products-system>/products'

body

{

type: 'pencil',

'name: 'the Contoso latest pencil',

manufacture: 'Contoso'

}

Thanks,

Kiril

Answer 1

Hello 78233321,

I'm not sure if this approach meets your requirements.

The following code will employ function calling to achieve the 'understand' the intent you mentioned. When GPT discerns that a user is inquiring about a product, it will retrieve product information through an API request and respond to related questions.

For a complete example code, please refer to the Microsoft Learn documentation.

from openai import AzureOpenAI
import requests

client = AzureOpenAI(
  azure_endpoint = os.getenv("AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT"), 
  api_key=os.getenv("AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY"),
  api_version="2024-03-01-preview"
)

def get_product_info(product_id):
    return requests.get(f"https://<some-product-system>/api/products/product/{product_id}").json()

messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "..."}]
tools = [
    {
        "type": "function",
        "function": {
            "name": "get_product_info",
            "description": "Obtain information about the product.",
            "parameters": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "product_id": {
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "The ID of the product",
                    }
                },
                "required": ["product_id"],
            },
        },
    }
]

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="<REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_MODEL_DEPLOYMENT_NAME>",
    messages=messages,
    tools=tools,
    tool_choice="auto"
)

est regards,
Charlie

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