OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Codex, the AI coding software, was built on OpenAI’s language generation model, GPT-3, and acts as a translator between users and computers. Codex was created to be an improvement on GPT-3. Instead of being trained on web content in general, its developers specifically used open-source code repositories they scraped from various parts of the web.
Working with Codex is like talking to a virtual assistant such as Alexa, Siri, or Google. You ask the software to do what you want the same way you’d ask a friend for a favor.
For instance, if you’re designing a website, you can type in commands like “Display this image of a cat: https://bit.ly/3fsc0rH”
and "Make it 20%"
You can also instruct it to adjust elements by changing their font, size, or orientation. While this may seem relatively straightforward and obvious to you, to Codex, it’s a series of commands.
Keynotes:
Uses natural language to communicate
Uses open-source code repositories from varies parts of the web
Makes fewer mistakes and unlikely to develop a 100% accuracy rate
The more complex the command is the harder it is to communicate it properly to the software
It's most capable in Python and proficient in over a dozen languages including JavaScript, Go, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Swift, TypeScript, SQL, and even Shell.
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