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Demo of an OpenAI language model applied to code generation [video]

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Re: Demo of an OpenAI language model applied to code generation [video]

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I would much rather have an AI that is capable of interpreting what I say as code. So if I say: Build me a class which computes the larger of two integers. The AI is smart enough to write it.

Did you watch the video? The AI is interpreting the comments as instructions on what code to generate. That's 95% of the solution, since the comments are just english and there already exists an abundance of NLU models in things like Alexa, Google, etc, that take speech input and produce english output, like the code comments.

Re: Demo of an OpenAI language model applied to code generation [video]

#17

Is this a demo of their AI 'autocomplete' tech that they've built into Visual Studio and VS Code?

It includes a segment with Sam Altman doing python code generation from nothing other than signatures and comment strings. Pretty incredible -- assuming the demo isn't entirely smoke and mirrors.

Re: Demo of an OpenAI language model applied to code generation [video]

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I had trouble accessing the relevant video snippet even after going through the conference registration, so here's a summary.

You can view the demo at https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1OyKAYWPRrWKb starting around 29:00.

It's Sam Altman demoing a massive Open AI model that was trained on GitHub OSS repos using a Microsoft supercomputer. It's not Intellicode, but the host says that they're working on compressing the models to a size that could be feasible in Intellicode. The code model uses English-language comments, or simply function signatures, to generate entire functions. Pretty cool.

Re: Demo of an OpenAI language model applied to code generation [video]

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post #7

I tried signing in with my Microsoft account as well, nope, they want you to definitely go ahead and fill out a registration form for Build conference https://register.build.microsoft.com/ , not gonna happen. Hope they learn not to paywall conferences of this kind, their competition just puts it out on YouTube live.

No problem, there are plenty of us already on the sessions.
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