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XIAO ESP32C3 and ChatGPT Usage

In this tutorial, we will guide users to learn and use XIAO ESP32C3 WiFiClient and HTTPClient libraries, how to connect to the network, how

ChatGPT is a new chatbot model, an artificial intelligence technology-powered natural language processing tool, released by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research lab, on November 30, 2022.

It is able to carry out conversations by learning and understanding human language, and can also interact based on the context of the chat, truly chatting and communicating like a human, even performing tasks such as writing emails, video scripts, copywriting, translating, and coding.

In embedded systems, ChatGPT can be a good helper to assist us in writing simple programs, or even checking and fixing bugs that appear in the program.

What is exciting is that OpenAI officially provides interfaces to call GPT-3 models, which allows us to call these interfaces and deploy this great model into our own embedded systems through a number of methods.

Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32C3 is an IoT mini development board based on the Espressif ESP32-C3 WiFi/Bluetooth dual-mode chip. It has excellent radio frequency performance, supporting IEEE 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, and Bluetooth 5 (LE) protocols. It can perfectly support the services of WiFi Client and WiFi Server provided by ESP32 official. Of course, it is able to support Arduino perfectly.

So in this tutorial, we will guide users to learn and use XIAO ESP32C3 WiFiClient and HTTPClient libraries, how to connect to the network, how to publish web pages and the basics of HTTP GET and POST. The goal is to call OpenAI ChatGPT and create your own Q&A website.

Getting Started
In this tutorial, we will use an XIAO ESP32C3 to configure a ChatGPT Q&A page of our own. In this page, you can enter your question and XIAO ESP32C3 will record your question and use the API call method provided by OpenAI to send a request command using HTTP Client to get ChatGPT’s answer and print it in the serial port.

The tasks in this tutorial can be divided into the following four main steps.

Configure the XIAO ESP32C3 to connect to the network : Inside this step, we will learn the basic WiFi configuration process using XIAO ESP32C3 and learn the basic operations of XIAO ESP32C3 such as network configuration, connecting to network services and obtaining IP address.

Build the embedded web page : In this step, we mainly touch on the WiFi Client library. By using the GET and POST functions of this library, we can write our own Q&A web page using HTML and deploy it on top of XIAO ESP32C3.

Submit questions via the built-in web page : In this step we will mainly learn to use the POST method in the HTTP Client to POST the questions we ask according to the OpenAI API standard. we will focus our main attention on the process of how to collect and store the questions from the web page.

Get answers from ChatGPT : In this step we learn to use the POST method in the HTTP Client and extract the answers to the questions we need from the returned messages. The last step is to sort out the structure of the code and make the final integration.”

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