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OpenAI's Codex Does Not Understand Code, yet Offers Both the Ingenious and the Mundane

by Legal PDF: Tech Court CasesSeptember 22nd, 2023
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Codex “does not understand the meaning of code," nor its “semantics and context the way humans do."

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Github Motion to dismiss Court Filing, retrieved on January 26, 2023 is part of HackerNoon’s Legal PDF Series. You can jump to any part in this filing here. This part is 3 of 26.

ALLEGATIONS OF THE OPERATIVE COMPLAINT

A. OpenAI Develops A Generative AI Tool Called Codex.


OpenAI is a nonprofit organization that develops machine learning models, also referred to as “Artificial Intelligence.” Compl. ¶¶ 2, 126, 128. Such models are typically trained through exposure to a corpus of material called “training data.” Compl. ¶ 79. The patterns discerned from the set of training data become part of the model, which can then generate answers based upon those patterns in response to user prompts. Compl. ¶ 81; see Compl. ¶ 52.


The model at issue in this case is called Codex. Codex is a generative AI model trained on publicly available computer source code. Compl. ¶¶ 52, 135. The model embodies “inferred … statistical patterns governing the structure of code,” Compl. ¶ 52, which it has discerned from the training data based on “a complex probabilistic process.” Compl. ¶ 79. It is thus capable, in response to a prompt, of “predic[ting] … the most likely [coding] solution.” Compl. ¶ 79. “[E]ssentially [it] returns the solution it has found in the most [coding] projects when those projects are somehow weighted to adjust for whatever variables [the model] ha[s] identified as relevant.” Compl. ¶ 79.


Generative AI models are capable of “simulat[ing] human reasoning or inference,” engaging in the same sort of pattern recognition, synthesis, and prediction we do. Compl. ¶ 2. AI models like Codex also enable statistical analysis and prediction vastly more powerful, efficient, and sensitive than what the human brain can accomplish. Compl. ¶ 81. At the same time, Codex “does not understand the meaning of code,” Compl. ¶ 54, nor its “semantics and context the way humans do,” Compl. ¶ 81. Codex thus offers both the ingenious and the mundane, a powerful tool of invention for humans who supply the insight to direct its range of performance.



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