Github Copilot code generator
Copilot is a cloud-based automated code generation tool launched by software development community GitHub in June 2021. Initially launched as a limited access 'technical preview', it became available by subscription to developers in June 2022. Developed in conjunction with OpenAI, Copilot was developed using OpenAI's Codex algorithm, which is based on its GPT-3 large language model and trained on publically available source code of different projects in Github repositories. Programmers have generally welcomed GitHub Copilot , but others have pointed out that it reproduces large chunks of copyrighted code verbatim without attributing their owners, raising questions about 'fair use' and licensing and opening it to accusations of copyright abuse and 'code laundering'. Code generation In computing , code generation denotes software techniques or systems that generate program code which may then be used independently of the generator system in a runtime environment . Source: Wikipedia 🔗
- Organisation involved
- Microsoft/Github
- Product, system or model
- Github Copilot; OpenAI Codex
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