Ivan is a Big Tech and India specialist. He also covers security, platforms, AI, and policies for TNW. It's a lot of stuff. He loves to say "Bleh." Ivan is a journalist covering Big Tech, India and policy. He also covers security, platforms, and apps to TNW. It's a lot of stuff. He loves to say "Bleh."GitHub is one of the most used platforms for hosting and building coding projects. It launched an integrated development environment (IDE) last year that allows you to code directly from the browser. It now offers GitHub Copilot, an AI-powered automcompletion tool.This feature teaches you how to write code and suggests lines and functions to help you learn. The Copilot tool allows you to find alternate ways of solving a problem, and then use new APIs.This feature was developed by GitHub in partnership with OpenAI. However, it is not based upon GPT-3. Here's what GitHub said on its blog about its technical capabilities:OpenAI Codex is able to use code in a wide variety of ways and has a greater understanding of code usage than GPT-3. This is partly because it was trained using a larger number of public source codes.This feature can also autofill code that is repeated, turn comments or descriptions into working code, and help to build tests for projects.GitHub's Copilot tool in actionThis function is currently only available as a technical preview. To get it, you'll need to apply via this page. Although the technical preview is available in many languages, it was said that it supports Python, TypeScript and Ruby.AI-powered autocompleters are a thing of the past. We spoke to Codata last year and they told us that the founders of Codata claimed that it helped them write 25% less code, while more than a million developers already used it. Kite, a tool that focused mainly on Python-based programming, had over 250,000 users at the time.GitHub's entry into this market will offer developers more options for using AI to complete their projects quicker.
