Inside a whirring fMRI machine, a computer programming challenge flashed across a screen suspended above a Johns Hopkins graduate student. Her eyes scanned the passage of code attempting to figure out ...

A nuance is that this command's destination needs to be further specified – will it print to the screen ... the code understandable to the computer and run error-free. A high-level programming ...

But now an innovative program ... the screen looks like gibberish. Delano: "Did you know any of this stuff before this class?" McNett: "None of it. Absolutely zero." But knowing computer code ...

Tom Smith, a veteran programmer, shows how Codex can instantly generate computer ... right code 37 percent of the time. When Mr. Smith used the system as part of a “beta” test program this ...