{"id":6206,"date":"2021-06-30T05:46:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T05:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1358696"},"modified":"2021-06-30T05:46:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T05:46:25","slug":"github-introduces-an-ai-pal-to-help-you-code-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=6206","title":{"rendered":"GitHub introduces an AI pal to help you code better"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>GitHub is already one of the most popular platforms to build and host coding projects. Last year, it launched <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/github-codespace-lets-you-code-in-your-browser-without-any-setup\">a built-in&nbsp;Integrated Development Environment<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/github-codespace-lets-you-code-in-your-browser-without-any-setup\">&nbsp;(IDE)<\/a> to let you code directly into the browser. Now, it\u2019s introducing an AI-powered automcompletion&nbsp;tool called GitHub Copilot.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of this feature is to learn how you write code, and to suggest lines and functions automatically, learning how to. What\u2019s more, the Copilot tool helps you find alternative ways to solve a problem and use,&nbsp;new APIs easily.<\/p>\n<p>GitHub has developed this feature in partnership with OpenAI, but it\u2019s not based on GPT-3. Here\u2019s what the company said about its technical capability on the blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p><span>OpenAI Codex has broad knowledge of how people use code and is significantly more capable than GPT-3 in code generation, in part, because it was trained on a data set that includes a much larger concentration of public source code.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The feature is also capable of autofilling code that repeats itself,&nbsp;<span>turning comments or descriptions into functioning code, and helping you build tests for your project.<\/span>, and help you build tests for your project.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-featured_img wp-image-1358698 js-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/06\/addresses-796x425.gif\" alt=\"Example of GitHub copilot tool in action\" width=\"796\" height=\"425\" sizes=\"(max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/06\/addresses-796x425.gif 796w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/06\/addresses-280x150.gif 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/06\/addresses-505x270.gif 505w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/06\/addresses-253x135.gif 253w\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/github-copilot-ai-openai-code-tool#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.thenextweb.com%2Fneural%2F2021%2F06%2F30%2Fgithub-copilot-ai-openai-code-tool%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: GitHub\u2019s Copilot tool in action\" data-title=\"Share GitHub\u2019s Copilot tool in action on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share GitHub\u2019s Copilot tool in action on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"><\/i><\/a>GitHub\u2019s Copilot tool in action<\/figcaption><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-featured_img wp-image-1358698\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/06\/addresses-796x425.gif\" alt=\"Example of GitHub copilot tool in action\" width=\"796\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/06\/addresses-796x425.gif 796w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/06\/addresses-280x150.gif 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/06\/addresses-505x270.gif 505w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/06\/addresses-253x135.gif 253w\"><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>Currently, this function is available only as a technical preview,<span>&nbsp;so you\u2019ll have to apply to try it via <a href=\"https:\/\/copilot.github.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">this page<\/a><\/span>. The technical preview supports many languages but the firm said it \u201cworks especially well with\u201d&nbsp;<span>Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, and Go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>AI-powered autocompleters have been around for a while. Last year, when we talked to Codata, its founders said that the tool helped you write 25% less code \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/how-this-ai-powered-auto-completer-is-helping-developers-write-25-less-code\">more than a million developers<\/a> were already using it. At that time, another such tool called <a href=\"https:\/\/kite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Kite<\/a> \u2014 focused mostly on Python-based programming \u2014 had more than 250,000 users.<\/p>\n<p>GitHub entering this market will give developers more options to use AI for completing their projects faster.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/github-copilot-ai-openai-code-tool\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GitHub is already one of the most popular platforms to build and host coding projects. Last year, it launched a built-in&nbsp;Integrated Development Environment&nbsp;(IDE) to let you code directly into the browser. Now,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}