Easily Set Up and Use ChatGPT in the Linux Terminal

ChatGPT is a conversational AI model developed by OpenAI that launched in November 2022 and took the world by storm. It is designed to respond to text-based queries and generate natural language responses. The model is based on the Generative Pretrained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) architecture, and most recently GPT-4 has been released, which is one of the largest and most advanced language models ever made.

GPT-4

For this article, we are going to leverage ShellGPT, a command-line tool powered by ChatGPT.

Prerequisites

For this command line tool to work, you need to install a couple of things on your Linux machine.

Python

Generally Python comes pre-installed on most Linux distros so you should probably check the version installed.

To check the Python version you have installed on your machine, run the command below:

python3 — version

Python version

If there are any errors or the version does not output, kindly run the command below to…