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Re:OpenAI Codex by f0e4c2f7 on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @02:23PM (#28132350)
They just finished a demo on twitch. Pretty crazy!

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1114111652

Starts at 15:45.

Re:OpenAI Codex by karmasimida on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @03:48PM (#28133363)
It is simultaneously impressive and underwhelming for me.

I mean yes this is a super impressive demo, but it didn't go beyond my expectation. I really want to see whether this model can write a correct binary search method without seeing one before.

Or even correctly using the binary search, does it understand concept like index boundaries?

Re:OpenAI Codex by wrinkl3 on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @07:42PM (#28136194)
> I really want to see whether this model can write a correct binary search method without seeing one before.

It has almost definitely seen a lot of coding problems so I would expect "write a function to binary search a sorted array" to output the intended result. I don't think anybody expects it to come up with algorithms it hasn't encountered.

Re:OpenAI Codex by polyanos on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @04:52PM (#28134357)
I found the whole UI/sandbox they created the most interesting part. Now don't get me wrong, the tech is certainly great and all, but I really didn't had the feeling I watched/learned more than I already knew from what was shown with Github CoPilot, although I was kinda impressed, if it really is as simple as they stated, at how it is able to adapt to new apis.

It's a shame they only limited the demo to relatively simple instructions.

Re:OpenAI Codex by stavros on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @04:46PM (#28134252)
> I really want to see whether this model can write a correct binary search method without seeing one before.

I don't believe the model was trained on Google interview answers, sadly.

Re:OpenAI Codex by j0ej0ej0e on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @05:34PM (#28134925)
aaaand they've blocked audio until 18:17ish, timestamp url: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1114111652?t=00h18m17s
Re:OpenAI Codex by raidicy on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @03:39PM (#28133237)
lmao; copyright muted so you can't even hear them speaking.