I guess if you tell codex to build a transpiler from a subset of python to brainfuck, then solve in that subset of python, it would work much better. Would that be cheating?
It would have been fun to see how AI generated voice (like https://www.enginn.tech ) could be integrated as well (and have an estimate of how much time it saves)
I guess it's probably something along the lines of "LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications" (see https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08239 ). Given that the three first authors are part of the team at Character.ai (see https://beta.character.ai/help)
Although they should not dismiss it at all as it can lead to extremely successful companies. I have Dataiku or UIPath (they did it for years) as good examples. They leveraged their existing customers to test their first product, with success.