Could this artificial intelligence change programming as we know it?

It's easy to imagine the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution as years off in the future, but it might be much closer than you think. When Sharif Shameem posted to Twitter an experiment he did with GPT-3, a closed-access artificial intelligence, thousands in the technology community were stunned. With GPT-3, I built a layout generator where you just describe any layout you want, and it generates the JSX code for you. With seemingly little effort, the two-minute clip appeared to show an AI understand how to write fairly complex computer code from a request in plain English, despite never having been trained to write code in the first place – or even understand English. 'It was never explicitly programmed how to read or how to understand English,' says Shameem, who has founded a start-up to help people develop web applications by writing in plain English.