March 2025
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
8h 51m
English
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Chapter 12. Using APIs with Artificial Intelligence
More AI means more APIs.
Frank Kilcommins, SmartBear
In technology circles, AI and APIs are sometimes treated as separate specialties. But they are closely related, and getting closer all the time. In this chapter, you will learn about the ways that AI and APIs overlap, some of the skills you should develop, and how to build APIs that are compatible with AI. Then, you will set up your Part III portfolio project, which you will use in the remaining chapters.
The Overlap of AI and APIs
To begin with, APIs are important data sources—along with databases and files—for training AI models. Once a model is trained, a REST API is a common method to make it available for users. You will train a machine learning model in Chapter 13, and deploy it with a REST API.
In the same way, cloud-based AI tools are advanced machine learning models that are deployed using APIs. AI tools such as generative AI, natural language processing, and others are often cloud hosted and made available as APIs. You will call an Anthropic large language model (LLM) through a REST API in Chapter 14.
An emerging area of overlap between AI and APIs is calling APIs directly from generative AI applications, which are built using LLMs and interact with users via natural language. One type of these applications is called retrieval augmented generation (RAG). In a RAG application, the program calls APIs and other data sources and then feeds the retrieved information ...
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