Codex, OpenAI’s Automated Code Generation API with Greg Brockman - 509

Today we’re joined by return guest Greg Brockman, co-founder and CTO of OpenAI. We had the pleasure of reconnecting with Greg on the heels of the announcement of Codex, OpenAI’s most recent release. Codex is a direct descendant of GPT-3 that allows users to do autocomplete tasks based on all of the publicly available text and code on the internet. In our conversation with Greg, we explore the distinct results Codex sees in comparison to GPT-3, relative to the prompts it's being given, how it could evolve given different types of training data, and how users and practitioners should think about interacting with the API to get the most out of it. We also discuss Copilot, their recent collaboration with Github that is built on Codex, as well as the implications of Codex on coding education, explainability, and broader societal issues like fairness and bias, copyrighting, and jobs.

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[camoliv]

I always wanted to learn to program but I had people that did not understand themselfs programming! I think you planted the seed of knowledge! Definitely a game-changer!

[mint-o]

Thank you very much for this interview

[markryan]

This was an awesome interview - great guest, really insightful questions, and jam-packed with useful information.

[AndrewKamenMusic]

It’d be interesting to have a round-table convo with the OpenAI team & Google’s AI team. Sam could moderate 😏

[erobusblack]

Also thanks from a dyslexic person, codex and GPT-3 are awesome for this disorder may i suggest a 100% speach and click options for this use case 😀

[lancebowley]

Greg! I'm inspired by NLP and I want to work with you!

[roggc]

can you teach codex to build a neural network?

[Xbl]

What a amazing technology, people with ideais but without programming
expertise will be able to creat great solutions.

[roggc]

if it can answer simple mathematical questions/problems (program a solution for the answer), why cannot evolve to solve more sophisticated problems concerning physics like relativity theory or quantum mechanics?

[newtacoc]

So is that a gateway for people who doesn't know anything about computer science ? Formidable, but you won't achieve anything by yourself...