{"id":1404,"date":"2021-09-21T17:52:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T22:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/singularityumexicosummit.com\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2021-09-21T17:52:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T22:52:13","slug":"openais-codex-translates-everyday-language-into-computer-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singularityumexico.com\/en\/openais-codex-translates-everyday-language-into-computer-code\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s Codex Translates Everyday Language Into Computer Code"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the beginning, computer programmers translated their desires into the language of machines. Now, those machines are becoming conversant in the language of their programmers. OpenAI\u2019s newly released Codex, a machine learning algorithm that can parse everyday language and<\/em> computer code, sits between these worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week, in a blog post<\/a> and demo<\/a>, OpenAI showed off Codex\u2019s skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The algorithm can turn written prompts into computer code with, at times, impressive results. OpenAI believes Codex will prove a worthy sidekick for coders, accelerating their work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Is Codex?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Codex is a descendent of OpenAI\u2019s GPT-3, a sprawling natural-language machine learning algorithm released last year. After digesting and analyzing billions of words, GPT-3 could write (sometimes eerily) passable text with nary but a simple prompt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when OpenAI released GPT-3 to developers, they quickly learned it could do more<\/a>. One fascinating discovery was that GPT-3 could write simple code from prompts. But it wasn\u2019t very good at it, so the team decided to fine-tune the algorithm with coding in mind from the start. They took a version of GPT-3 and trained it on billions of lines of publicly available code, and Codex was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According OpenAI, Codex is proficient in over a dozen computer languages, but it\u2019s particularly good at Python and, of course, everyday language. These skills in hand, Codex can digest a prompt like, \u201cAdd this image of a rocket ship,\u201d and spit out the code necessary to embed an image (provided by the programmer) on the screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a demo, the OpenAI team showed how to code a simple video game\u2014from blank screen to playable\u2014using naught but a series of chatty prompts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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