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RPIrates: “Fun with OpenAI, GPTStudio and R!” (6p, 14 Feb 2023)

Seemingly everyone has been talking about the impact of OpenAI’s ChatGPT on, well, everything​, including writing code. In this very special RPIrates we talk specifically about generating great, and sometimes not-so-great, R code based on OpenAI’s “Codex” models, which are easily accessed via the OpenAI API with the help of RStudio extensions (addins) provided by the GPTStudio package. After a quick icebreaker in which we’ll demo GPTStudio in action, we’ll briefly review transformer neural networks; we’ll talk about how code completion tools like Microsoft’s IntelliCode Compose apply TNN frameworks to write scarily excellent code; we’ll tour OpenAI’s Codex documentation; and then we’ll get back to more hands-on with GPTstudio. We’ll also talk about why code completion frameworks like Codex are so great at Python and Javascript but spotty with R, and of course, the ethics; oh, the ethics!​ Many links for further learning and research will be provided.