[ExI] AI Could Soon Write Code Based on Ordinary Language

John Grigg possiblepaths2050 at gmail.com
Thu May 27 07:21:07 UTC 2021


"In recent years, researchers have used artificial intelligence
<https://www.wired.com/tag/artificial-intelligence/> to improve translation
<https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.03511> between programming languages or
automatically fix problems <https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10636>. The AI
system DrRepair, for example, has been shown to solve most issues that
spawn error messages. But some researchers dream of the day when AI can
write programs based on simple descriptions from non-experts.

On Tuesday, Microsoft <https://www.wired.com/tag/microsoft/> and OpenAI
<https://www.wired.com/tag/openai/> shared plans to bring GPT-3, one of the
world’s most advanced models for generating text, to programming based on
natural language descriptions. This is the first commercial application of
GPT-3 undertaken since Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI last year
and gained exclusive licensing rights to GPT-3.

“If you can describe what you want to do in natural language, GPT-3 will
generate a list of the most relevant formulas for you to choose from,” said
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in a keynote address at the company’s Build
developer conference. “The code writes itself.”


https://www.wired.com/story/ai-write-code-ordinary-language/
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