aibeginner⏱ 10 min setup
OpenAI API
GPT-4, DALL-E, Whisper, and embeddings. The most widely used AI API.
Plain language
What is it?
Access to ChatGPT's intelligence from your own app. You send it a question or task, it responds intelligently — and you control the experience.
Why use it at a hackathon?
To add AI-powered features: answering questions, summarizing documents, translating languages, generating content, or understanding what users write.
Common use
Multilingual health chatbots, document summarizers for legal aid, food resource finders, crisis triage tools, tutoring assistants.
Tags
llmgpt-4image-genembeddings
At a glance
Setup time: 10 minutes
Difficulty: beginner
Skill: Beginner. Send text in, get text back. The API is straightforward. The harder part is designing what to ask the AI.
Impact context
Challenge domains
Health & WellbeingEducation & AccessFood & AgricultureCrisis & Disaster ResponseCivic TechJustice & RightsEconomic Equity
SDGs
Good HealthQuality EducationZero HungerDecent WorkReduced InequalitiesPeace & Justice
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