ChatGPT, Copilot, Bard, and even Microsoft’s Bing Chat are capable of creating lines of code in different programming languages, a very useful feature that certainly allows programmers to focus their activity on more comprehensive issues. However, these Artificial Intelligences leave much to be desired when it comes to creating more complex code, because they are only valid as a complement for programmers.
The news that we can read from time to time about, supposed, programmers who have become rich thanks to an application that they have created using only AI, they are completely false. However, everything changes when we talk about AlphaCode. AlphaCode is an artificial intelligence that, as the name indicates, is designed to write programming code at an expert level. Behind this platform is Google’s DeepMind, an Artificial Intelligence laboratory in which the search giant has been working for many years and whose results we have seen in different fields.
What is AlphaCode
Unlike other Artificial Intelligences, AlphaCode has been specifically designed to program, like Codex, the OpenAI AI platform whose purpose is to write programming code based on a description. However, Codex is based on GPT-3 (currently both ChatGPT and Bing Chat use GPT-4), and it has been trained using much of the programming code that we can find on GitHub, so its capabilities for creating lines of code are very limited and it is only useful for solving simple issues.
Google has put the AlphaCode capabilities to the test by signing up for programming contests at an expert level, always staying among the best candidates. This AI analyzes all the possible options to generate a solution to the question that is asked to, finally, show the answer that it considers most appropriate.
AlphaCode was born with the goal of having enough capacity to create applications automatically, without the need for human helpHowever, like all Artificial Intelligence, it is not perfect, at least for the moment, and it still needs human supervision to analyze the operation of the code it creates.
As the years go by and Google continues to focus its activity on improving this AI, AlphaCode will be a perfect tool to help programmers with programming tasks, solving doubts, analyzing the code and so on. not as a plugin to create simple code instructions as most Chats based on Artificial Intelligence are currently being used.
