Copyright Advocates Speak Out Against Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot Tool
At the end of last month, Microsoft introduced GitHub Copilot, a service that allows programmers tools to write code more easily. However, it seems Copilot is not welcome by some programmers, who have rejected the service. Some going as far as to say the GitHub tool breaches copyright.
GitHub Copilot system runs on a new AI platform developed by OpenAI known as Codex. Copilot is designed to help programmers across a wide range of languages. That includes popular scripts like JavaScript, Ruby, Go, Python, and TypeScript, but also many more languages.
“GitHub Copilot understands significantly more context than most code assistants. So, whether it’s in a docstring, comment, function name, or the code itself, GitHub Copilot uses the context you’ve provided and synthesizes code to match. Together with OpenAI, we’re designing GitHub Copilot to get smarter at producing safe and effective code as developers use it.”
