It’s been a while since ChatGPT launched, and I’ve been meaning to try out the OpenAI API. Recently, I finally took the plunge, so here’s a walkthrough of my initial experience using it.Objective: I’ve previously used ChatGPT’s interface for language translation tasks between Chinese and English. For this API experiment, I aimed to set up a simple translation function using the OpenAI API.Step 1: Getting the API KeyFirst, to access the API, I created an OpenAI account and generated an API key. This key is required for making API calls. The setup is straightforward...