OpenAI is hiring hundreds of contractors from different parts of the world to help ChatGPT get better at coding, follow Report from Semafor.
More specifically, the company is hiring computer programmers to create training data that includes lines of code, as well as explanations of code written in natural language.
OpenAI already has a ChatGPT model dedicated to translating natural language into code, called Codex. Before launching in 2021, Codex was trained on data pulled from GitHub, a code repository owned by Microsoft.
Microsoft’s use of Codex to support GitHub Copilot, a service that helps programmers write code, is good enough.
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However, recent research shows that encryption support can be improved by added ChatGPT’s unique dialogue capability with humans. Therefore, it is not surprising that OpenAI will invest in this area by hiring more contractors. Meanwhile, Stack Overflow, the question and answer site for programmers, has ChatGPT-generated replies are forbidden because even its low quality answers can sound reasonable.
To really promote a coding assistantAccording to Yann LeCun, Meta’s lead AI scientist, researchers will need to build “a system capable of predicting the effects of its own actions, as well as having” some sort of world model. within, a mental model of how the world will change as a result of its own actions.”
LeCun recently likened coding assistants like Copilot to a car’s cruise control system. “Your hands need to be on the wheel at all times,” because Copilot can create an error in the code without being aware of it.
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“The question is, how do we get from systems that generate code that sometimes runs but sometimes doesn’t,” says LeCun. “And the answer to this is that all systems today are incapable of planning; they are purely reactive.”
