An OpenAI Codex Experiment: Coding the Game of Pong using an AI co-pilot
OpenAI recently released Codex in private beta. Codex is the AI model that powers GitHub Co-pilot, branded as "Your AI pair programmer".
There is much hype about this technology (and for good reasons), but in order t o understand this state of the art automatic code generation technology better, we need to look at a specific example. A good example is one that can be described in just a few lines of text, can easily be understood through visualization and in a domain that is outside of your expertise, so you can better appreciate the value a “code co-pilot” brings to non-experts.
Note: I have no affiliation with GitHub, Microsoft nor OpenAI, so what follows is the honest feedback of someone who has been writing software in a variety of languages for over 25 years.
Pong is a two-dimensional sports game that simulates table tennis. The player controls an in-game paddle by moving it vertically across the left or right side of the screen. The player can compete against another player controlling a second paddle on the opposing side. Players use the paddles to hit a ball back and forth. The goal is for each player to reach eleven points before the opponent; points are earned when one fails to return the ball to the other.
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