This course is designed to teach you how to use the ChatGPT Assistants API to create powerful and engaging AI assistants within your own applications. The ChatGPT Assistants API is a cloud-based service that allows you to build AI assistants using the state-of-the-art GPT-4 and other models, tools, and knowledge sources. You will learn how to create an Assistant by defining its custom instructions and picking a model, enable the tools that you want to use for your AI assistant, such as Code Interpreter, Retrieval, Function calling, and Graphic Art, create a Thread when a user starts a conversation with your AI assistant, add Messages to the Thread as the user asks questions or provides inputs to your AI assistant, run the Assistant on the Thread to trigger responses from your AI assistant, and switch between different modes and modalities of communication, such as goal-oriented and conversational, text and voice, and image and text. You will also learn how to use the ChatGPT web app and the ChatGPT API to interact with your AI assistant and test its performance and functionality. By the end of this course, you will be able to create your own AI assistant that can handle various tasks and domains, and provide a rich and enjoyable experience for the user.