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OpenAI Codex is an AI system that translates natural language into code. A general-purpose programming model, while results vary, Codex can be applied to effectively any coding task. Codex powers GitHub Copilot, a project built in partnership with GitHub that suggests code and entire functions in real time. Codex is proficient in over a dozen programming languages (Python, JavaScript, Go, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Swift, TypeScript, Shell, etc.) interpreting simple natural language commands to execute them on the user's behalf. The model makes it possible to build a natural language interface for existing applications.
A descendent of GPT-3, Codex is trained on both natural language and billions of lines of source code from publicly available sources, including public GitHub repositories. Codex has a similar natural language understanding as GPT-3 but translates this information into working code. This requires:
- Breaking up a larger problem into a series of simpler problems
- Mapping the resulting simpler problems to existing code (libraries, APIs, or functions)
