“I was teaching a 200-level Java class and demonstrating how to write an algorithm” in an IDE, Wagner said. “I typed the name of a common function, greatest common denominator, and the AI completed ...

The models trained in this article use an algorithm called nanoGPT, developed by Andrej Karpathy. Mr. Karpathy is a prominent A.I. researcher who recently joined OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.