{"id":45225,"date":"2021-06-30T11:41:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T08:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=45225"},"modified":"2025-08-31T20:44:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T17:44:42","slug":"github-unveils-ai-powered-copilot-code-autocompletion-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/github-unveils-ai-powered-copilot-code-autocompletion-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"GitHub unveils AI-powered Copilot code autocompletion tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GitHub, the hosting service for IT projects, unveiled an AI-powered code auto-completion tool, Copilot.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">Meet GitHub Copilot \u2014 your AI pair programmer. <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/eWPueAXTFt\\\">https:\/\/t.co\/eWPueAXTFt<\/a> <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/NPua5K2vFS\\\">pic.twitter.com\/NPua5K2vFS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GitHub (@github) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/github\/status\/1409883156333879300?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">June 29, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The tool is available in a prerelease. According to the developers, it supports many programming languages, but \u201cworks especially well\u201d with Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby and Go.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The tool also automatically fills repetitive lines, turns comments or descriptions into working code, and helps in creating tests for the project.<\/p>\n<p>GitHub developed Copilot in collaboration with OpenAI, but it is not based on GPT-3. According to OpenAI&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201cOpenAI 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,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Brockman added that an API for OpenAI Codex would be released in the summer of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Microsoft unveiled the first commercial<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/china-tests-algorithms-on-uyghurs-synthetic-people-rap-and-other-ai-world-news\"> product based on the GPT-3<\/a> language model.<\/p>\n<p>In January, OpenAI showcased the DALL-E algorithm, which<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/chess-engine-with-human-like-behavior-openais-new-neural-network-and-other-ai-news\"> generates realistic images<\/a> from a text description.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s Telegram news: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogAI\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\\\"> ForkLog AI<\/a> \u2014 all the news from the world of AI!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GitHub hosting service for IT projects unveiled the AI-powered Copilot code-autocompletion tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,1456,1190],"class_list":["post-45225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-github","tag-openai"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"42","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45226,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45225\/revisions\/45226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}