Now for AI’s Latest Trick: Writing Computer Code Programs such as GPT-3 can compose convincing text. Some people are using the tool to automate software development and hunt for bugs.

OpenAI highlights ChatGPT's dialogue capability in examples for debugging code where it can ask for clarifications, and receive hints from a person to arrive at a better answer.

But Google's DeepMind AI group has now developed a reinforcement learning tool that can develop extremely optimized algorithms without first being trained on human code examples.