Scott Logic / Altogether Smarter
I’ve been lucky enough to be granted access to the preview of Copilot, GitHub’s new “AI pair programmer” that is causing quite a stir. This blog post shares my initial thoughts and experiences with this tool. In brief, I’m stunned by its capabilities. It has genuinely made me say “wow” out loud a few times in the past few hours, not something you come to expect from your developer tools!
However, there are some genuine practical limitations to this tool at the moment, which I’ll discuss in this post. My feeling is this tool isn’t something that is going to revolutionise programming just yet, but I firmly believe it will have a significant and game-changing impact in the future.
Copilot is the latest development from OpenAI, a San Francisco-based AI company that recently received a considerable backing ($1bn dollars) from Microsoft. OpenAI have been making headlines recently with GPT3 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer), their third generation language model based on a massive neural network, with 175 billion parameters, that has been trained on a vast corpus of text.
I got access the the OpenAI GPT-3 API and I have to say I’m blown away. It’s far more coherent than any AI language system I’ve ever tried.
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