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There was a question like this in 2019. I hope things have changed since then.

Concretely, I am looking for a way to train a transformer model to convert code from SAS to Python. I guess the method does not depend on the pair of programming languages requested as long as one has enough data for training.

There are paid tools, e.g. CodeConert and sas2py, that do this, but I can not find out what the are based on and how they were built.

It appears that one (very bad) way could be to use interpreters that translate one programming language, e.g. Java, to English and then from English to the second programming language, e.g. Python. This must be very prone to mistakes and seems like a wrong approach.

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ChatGPT, which is based on the transformer, can already do this to some extent, so yes to your question, but I also doubt it will always be effective.

OpenAI also used to provide Codex (which is or was being used in Github's copilot), but recently OpenAI deprecated it in favour of models behind ChatGPT.

nbro
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