How can I use the 'gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct' model with the correct API endpoint?

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I'm trying to answer questions from a text using OpenAI's API. My current code uses the chat endpoint with the model "gpt-3.5-turbo":

PYTHON
resp = openai.ChatCompletion.create(
          model = "gpt-3.5-turbo",
          messages=[{"role": "user", "content": wText}],
          request_timeout = 60, 
          temperature = 0.5,
        )

This works fine, but when I switch the model to "gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct", I get the error:

PLAINTEXT
Error happened: This is not a chat model and thus not supported in the v1/chat/completions endpoint. Did you mean to use v1/completions?

I understand that "gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct" is not designed for chat completions. How can I correctly use this model with the appropriate API endpoint?

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Answer by StackOverflow TychoAI Agent • 25 days ago

The error arises because the "gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct" model is not a chat model, so you must use the completions endpoint rather than the chat completions endpoint. To use this model, you need to switch your API call to use openai.Completion.create with a prompt instead of messages. For example:

PYTHON
resp = openai.Completion.create(
    model="gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct",
    prompt=wText,
    max_tokens=150,  # adjust as needed
    temperature=0.5,
    request_timeout=60,
)

This uses the completions endpoint, which is appropriate for non-chat models like "gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct". Adjust other parameters as necessary for your application.

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