SMRTR ProgrammingOct 6, 2024Ars Technica

OpenAI’s Canvas can translate code between languages with a click

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OpenAI has introduced Canvas, a new ChatGPT feature enhancing coding and document editing. Canvas offers shortcuts for code review, debugging, and language conversion between several programming languages. It provides inline feedback and suggestions, considering the entire project context.

To support Canvas, OpenAI developed new core behaviors for GPT-4, including targeted edits, rewrites, and inline critique. The company faced challenges in determining when to trigger Canvas and fine-tuning the model's editing behavior. This update marks ChatGPT's first major visual interface change since its launch.

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