[SOLVED] Openai.complete not found

General API discussion
1

Hi, I’m adding a openai function to an existing project. I’m using VSC, yarn, python, node.js. I’ve imported openai to the project and I can see it in my dependencies. Just to test I’ve added a user prompt which should then call openai and display the response.

I’m using import * as openai from ‘openai’
but it cannot find openai.complete in the below code (it’s not a code issue but just for example)

const handleSubmit = async (event) => {
event.preventDefault()

const response = await openai.complete({
  engine: 'davinci',
  prompt: question,
  maxTokens: 150,
  n: 1,
  stop: '\n',
  temperature: 0.7,
})
setAnswer(response.data.choices[0].text)

}

VSC throws the error:

Property ‘complete’ does not exist on type ‘typeof import(“REDACTED/node_modules/openai/dist/index”)’

ChatGPT unhelpfully advices me to upgrade to the latest version of openai, but I already am. Scratching my head now, although I’m sure it’s something to do with my environment, I just dont know where to look.

2

Where did you get the code above, is it from ChatGPT?

:slight_smile:

3

Yeah, chatGPT has been helping me out.

4

That’s the problem, mate.

Go to the OpenAI API docs and use the examples there and you will not waste so much time with deprecated, buggy , ChatGPT nonsense code .

The OpenAI API docs are much better than ChatGPT :slight_smile:

Hope the helps.

:slight_smile:

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5

Thank you, I’ll do that then :smile:

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6

5 minutes later - IT WORKS! When chatGPT came out I thought that would be the end of RTFM… guess I was wrong. Thank you.

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7

You are welcome.

You have no idea @matthew.rogers how much time we “experienced coders” waste here answering ChatGPT coded nonsense questions.

It’s the “new form of spam” where folks to go ChatGPT, a language generating tool and waste so much time debugging “ChatGPT nonsense” when they could go to the expertly written and up-to-data API docs and have working code, as you just discovered @matthew.rogers

ChatGPT is “OK” for writing draft code which is not based on changing, updating libraries, For example, if you ask ChatGPT to write a method to sort an array of hashes based on a hash key in Python, Ruby, JS, etc. you will probably get a good draft of a code method. That is because that code is “mature” and not based on a lib which changes.

In this case, ChatGPT is working with deprecated code data samples from mid 2021 and so it’s writing depreciated, unusable code for you.

Now you know, @matthew.rogers

Generative AI is NOT going to put experienced developers out of work anytime soon :slight_smile:

Hope this helps!

:slight_smile:

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