Unveiling the potential of large language models in generating semantic and cross-language clones

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Semantic and Cross-language code clone generation may be useful for code reuse, code comprehension, refactoring and benchmarking.

• OpenAI's GPT model has potential in such clone generation as GPT is used for text generation.
• When developers copy/paste codes from Stack Overflow (SO) or within a system, there might be inconsistent changes leading to unexpected behaviours.
• Similarly, if someone possesses a code snippet in a particular programming language but seeks equivalent functionality in a different language, a semantic cross-language code clone generation approach could provide valuable assistance.