美国国税局（IRS）、银行、航空公司以及世界各地的政府基础设施有什么共同点？它们都在运行由古老计算机代码支撑的系统，没人敢动这些代码，以免一切崩溃。
What do the IRS, banks, airlines, and government infrastructure around the world have in common? They're all running on systems propped up by antique computer code that nobody dares touch, lest everything come crashing down.
OpenAI认为它可能找到了解决方案。10月19日，该公司宣称其最新AI模型在将用旧编程语言编写的老旧软件迁移为现代代码的能力方面取得了“实质性改进”，并声称这有助于组织“维护和现代化老旧系统”。
OpenAI thinks it may have a solution. On October 19th, the company touted "substantial improvements" in its latest AI models' ability to migrate aging software written in older programming languages into modern code, which it claims could help organizations with "maintaining and modernizing older systems."
这可能是一笔大买卖。OpenAI重点提到的语言之一COBOL，依然顽固地嵌入……
That's a potentially massive deal. COBOL, one of the languages highlighted by OpenAI, remains stubbornly embedded …