On June 29, 2021, Microsoft and GitHub presented a neural network assistant programmer Copilot ("co-pilot") based on the technologies of the Open AI company engaged in research in the field of artificial intelligence. The GitHub Copilot system is trained to work with various frameworks and programming languages. The current technical preview version of the service is most focused on working with Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby and Go.
GitHub Copilot is powered by OpenAI Codex, a new artificial intelligence system created by OpenAI. The OpenAI Codex solution has extensive knowledge of how developers use code and is significantly more efficient than GPT-3 in code generation, partly because it has been trained on a dataset stored in public repositories, including terabytes of publicly available code.
Unfortunately, GitHub Copilot cannot replace the “Main pilot” as the authors report on the project's website. Do not look at the extension as an artificial intelligence that does all the work for the programmer. The program increases the productivity of the developer, speeds up the workflow and helps to find alternative solutions, but even professionals cannot rely on it in everything. According to the first users of Copilot, at the beginning of its work, the neural network often generated meaningless and repetitive code. Sometimes the extension also did not import the libraries necessary for writing code, transferring control to the first pilot.
Do not forget, the service does not invent programs, it only copies strings from the GitHub repository.
What does that technology mean for our future? It is a doubtful question, but it is certainly a new step in code understanding and AI intelligence.
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