To help programmers write codes easily and to help amateur coders get started with coding, researchers at the AI research company OpenAI are releasing a new machine learning tool that can translate English language into computer codes. With this, the researchers aim to ease the workflow of professional coders and help entry-level programmers create simple websites and games.
Now, coming to the working of Codex, in the demos of the tool, OpenAI shows how programmers and coders can use it to build simplistic websites and basic games. Coders can write commands for the tool in English, and Codex automatically translates them into computer codes.
Now, before developing Codex, the researchers used an earlier version of the said tool to develop a tool called CoPilot for GitHub. It was similar to the autocomplete tools that Gmail and other applications use to complete the sentences of users while writing an email or a message.
Now, as Codex uses open-source codes to create an application or a webpage, it led many coders to complain about the credibility of the tool. It often suggests short code snippets written by other developers follow the commands of a user. Hence, many have complained that OpenAI is profiting from the work of others, which is unfair for those developers and coders.
