All the things you need to know about the GitHub Copilot !
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All the things you need to know about the GitHub Copilot !
Jul 4
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Q. So what is GitHub Copilot ?
Q. Will it replace the developers with AI machines ?
Q. Is it the start of the end?
There can be many kind of things that you can say about it, here I can be a pragmatic man and say that its gonna take developer's jobs and I don't know one day it might even happen !!
But its nothing happening anytime soon that's for sure !!
So don't worry you and your jobs are secure.
But lets know what actually is GitHub Copilot !
So Its is a AI based application that predicts your code by just reading the function name you have declared, it actually works by reading through all the open source code on the GitHub repos worldwide and then collect the data and tries to find the best possible code related to it !
This Application is being developed by a company called Open AI. If you have ever used Kite/Tabnine as a AI extension in your IDE, you might have a slight idea about how the GitHub copilot works.
As far as I know the GitHub copilot works on the algorithm GPT-3
It is currently the one of "The" best algorithm in AI right now in the world if not the best.
At the end, I don't think its really that much threating right now, but you never know moving forward what does the future hold for you, in my opinion this AI based application will take a while to get really good at getting every code to the mark.
So Chill and keep CODING.
HAPPY CODING 🚀
Discussion (1)
- Open source does not equal free to use. And even if it is published under an OSS spec compliant license, there's often an attribution requirement.
- This Codepilot has been stealing code and has even been copying it ad verbum, (comments and all..) into its some of its users' projects.
- The plan is to eventually start charging for usage, don't count yourself rich on being able to lean back and have the code write itself just yet.
- Oh, and as the cherry on the cake, it also sends home any code you have written that is an adjustment of the snippet it spit out. Meaning it's possibly illegal to use if you're handling stuff that's covered by some NDA or protected by privacy law.
At least they're up-front about it as most of the above is mentioned as a possibility in their FAQ [1].
Microsoft is a 1.7 trillion dollar enterprise, by the way. They should be alright without you jumping into the breach for them to defend this highly unethical behaviour!
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