If an AI service can now write code for developers, it raises the question of how it will impact students studying computer science, and if highly paid software-engineering jobs will vanish. It also offers to autocomplete lines of code you're already writing. Tell Codex what type of software problem you're trying to solve, and Codex will suggest a solution with a string of code. Codex is similar, except that instead of writing human language sentences, it writes software code.

Using data it has collected from across the web, ChatGPT can answer just about any question thrown at it - though not always accurately - and with a response that looks like a human wrote it.

The same company has also been developing Codex, a less-popular service that could completely change the way developers work. OpenAI is the talk of the town these days as the company's intelligent chatbot, ChatGPT, has sparked imaginations and made people ask what role artificial intelligence will play going forward. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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