The Carbon programming language was announced today, which gives us an interesting opportunity: can GPT-3 learn a new programming language that it DEFINITELY hasn't had any exposure to? And the answer is yes!!!!!!!

Jul 20, 2022 · 4:09 AM UTC

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I mean the 0..n syntax seems to be invalid, but it's a good guess
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That is Rust syntax... Also the types f32 and i32 are from Rust. But Rust has no Print function. So it is learning from the example and mixing it in.
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Here's a more complicated example. Again, it is taking bits of Rust like the type names, but then adding Carbon-specific syntax like "Slice(i32)" .
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This is one of the weirdest things I've ever seen. It's taking ONE EXAMPLE of a BRAND NEW PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE and extending that out into new programs.
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Lol it even seems to understand what it's doing
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I mean some of these are wrong (Rust DOES use slices, and Carbon DOESN'T have ownership) but it's completely plausible
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it can incorporate new data about the language
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it can both compile and run code
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it can do some interesting transformations of code
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this is too weird
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it can compile AND document
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Ok I'm out.
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