A good code generator basically works like a compiler: It reads some input, creates an intermediate representation called an abstract syntax tree (AST), validates the AST for structural correctness, ...

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have released PolyCoder, an automated code generator model that was trained on multiple programming languages, which they say is particularly good at ...

They had not built GPT-3 to generate computer code, just as they had not built it to write like Mr. Kaufman or generate tweets or translate languages.