- Published on July 5, 2021
- In Global Tech
Tech Behind GitHub Copilot: The Coding Assistant From Microsoft & OpenAI
- By Shraddha Goled
OpenAI and Microsoft have come together to release a technical preview of GitHub Copilot, an AI-based tool that helps programmers write better code. Copilot takes context from the code being worked on and suggests whole lines and functions.
https://twitter.com/github/status/1409883156333879300?s=20
Microsoft acquired GitHub, a popular code-repository service used by many developers and large companies, in 2018. In 2019, Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI to build artificial general intelligence and jointly develop new Azure AI supercomputing technologies; Microsoft already holds exclusive licenses for OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model.
Copilot is based on OpenAI Codex, an AI system trained on a dataset made up of a sizable chunk of public source code. Copilot works with
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Shraddha Goled
I am a technology journalist with AIM. I write stories focused on the AI landscape in India and around the world with a special interest in analysing its long term impact on individuals and societies. Reach out to me at shraddha.goled@analyticsindiamag.com.
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