GitHub, the hosting service for IT projects, unveiled an AI-powered code auto-completion tool, Copilot.
Meet GitHub Copilot — your AI pair programmer. https://t.co/eWPueAXTFt pic.twitter.com/NPua5K2vFS
— GitHub (@github) June 29, 2021
The tool is available in a prerelease. According to the developers, it supports many programming languages, but “works especially well” with Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby and Go.
Copilot in real time recognises how the user writes code, and automatically suggests lines and functions for autocomplete. It will help find alternative ways to solve a problem and use new APIs.
The tool also automatically fills repetitive lines, turns comments or descriptions into working code, and helps in creating tests for the project.
GitHub developed Copilot in collaboration with OpenAI, but it is not based on GPT-3. According to OpenAI’s CTO and chair, Greg Brockman, the basis for building the tool was the new AI system OpenAI Codex, which translates natural language into code with greater reliability.
“OpenAI Codex has extensive knowledge of how people use code. It is more effective than GPT-3 because it was trained on a dataset that includes a much higher concentration of publicly available source code,” the company said.
Brockman added that an API for OpenAI Codex would be released in the summer of 2021.
In May, Microsoft unveiled the first commercial product based on the GPT-3 language model.
In January, OpenAI showcased the DALL-E algorithm, which generates realistic images from a text description.
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