Just in: GitHub launches its new GPT-4-powered Copilot coding assistant

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GitHub, the popular platform for hosting and collaborating on software projects, has announced a new feature that aims to make coding easier and faster.

GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered coding assistant that can suggest code snippets based on the context of your project and your natural language comments, reports The Verge.

GitHub Copilot is powered by GPT-4, the latest version of OpenAI’s generative pre-trained transformer model that can produce natural language texts on various topics.

GPT-4 has been trained on billions of lines of public code from GitHub and other sources, as well as natural language texts from the web. This enables it to understand both the syntax and semantics of different programming languages and domains.

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GitHub Copilot works as a Visual Studio Code extension that integrates with your editor and provides suggestions as you type. You can accept, reject or modify the suggestions as you wish.

GitHub Copilot can also generate entire functions or files based on your comments or queries.

For example, you can write “create a function that adds two numbers” and GitHub Copilot will generate the code for you.

GitHub Copilot is currently in technical preview and available for a limited number of users who sign up for the waitlist.

GitHub plans to expand the availability and functionality of GitHub Copilot in the future, as well as address some of the ethical and legal issues around using AI-generated code.

GitHub Copilot is not intended to replace human programmers, but rather to augment their capabilities and productivity.

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