Codex

OpenAI Codex is an advanced artificial intelligence system designed to translate natural language into code. This AI-powered tool serves as the foundation for GitHub Copilot, enabling developers to write code using natural language commands and enhancing the overall coding experience.

Key features:
- Natural Language to Code Translation: Interprets simple commands in natural language and converts them into executable code, facilitating the creation of natural language interfaces for applications.
- Support for Multiple Programming Languages: Proficient in over a dozen programming languages, with particular strength in Python, enabling handling of a wide range of programming tasks across different platforms.
- Enhanced Memory for Python Code: Possesses a memory of 14KB for Python code, allowing consideration of over three times as much contextual information while performing tasks compared to GPT-3.
- General-Purpose Programming Model: Applicable to virtually any programming task, including transpilation, code explanation, and refactoring.
- Integration with GitHub Copilot: Powers GitHub Copilot, providing an AI pair programmer that helps write code faster and with fewer errors.

How it works:
1. Users interact with OpenAI Codex through an API.
2. Commands are issued in English.
3. Codex translates these commands into working code.
4. The system automates the mapping of complex problems to existing code libraries, APIs, or functions.

Integrations:
GitHub Copilot

Use of AI:
OpenAI Codex leverages generative artificial intelligence to extend the natural language understanding capabilities of GPT-3 to the domain of programming. It is trained on a mixture of natural language and billions of lines of source code from publicly available sources, including GitHub repositories. This training enables Codex to understand programming intent from natural language commands and generate functional code in response.

AI foundation model:
OpenAI Codex is built on the GPT-3 model but is specifically tailored for programming tasks.

Target users:
- Individual developers looking to streamline their coding process
- Businesses aiming to build natural language programming interfaces for their applications
- Users across various programming tasks due to its general-purpose nature and support for multiple programming languages

How to access:
OpenAI Codex is available as an API, allowing developers to integrate its capabilities into their applications and services. It is offered in a private beta version.

Supported programming languages:
Python, JavaScript, Go, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Swift, TypeScript, Shell, and others