After years of promise, a massive shift is under way.
One day in late November, I cradled a red Samsung flip phone in my hands as if it was a ruby gemstone.
Earlier this year, GitHub rolled out Copilot Chat, a ChatGPT-like programming-centric chatbot for organizations subscribed to Copilot for Business. Copilot Chat more recently came to individual Copilot customers — those paying $10 per month — in beta. And now, GitHub’s launching Chat in general availability for all users.
As of today, Copilot Chat is available in the sidebar in Microsoft’s IDEs, Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio — included as a part of GitHub Copilot paid tiers and free for verified teachers, students and maintainers of certain open source projects.
“As home to the world’s developers, we’ve brought to market what is now the most widely adopted AI developer tool in history,” Shuyin Zhao, VP of product management at GitHub, told TechCrunch in an email interview. “And code complete was just the beginning.”
The term “AI,” short for Artificial Intelligence, was officially coined in 1955 by John McCarthy while he was at MIT, a prominent computer scientist and one of the field’s early visionaries.
“He was the most even-tempered, caring and inspirational person and coach. He seemed to always have a smile for us, especially when we were exhausted from a work out, and most importantly when we had a poor race and were feeling down. Gene could shake a runner out of a sense of failure. He could restore confidence for a better next time. He treated us as adults. I remember him telling us that if we succeeded, the honor was ours, but if we failed, so was the responsibility. He knew how to build a person’s maturity.” — Jon Schmeyer ’77
The week before classes began, the cross country team (along with some of the other fall sports) came to campus for ‘training week.’ For that week, Gene had us run three times a day. My senior year, we started with distances of 5 miles/5 miles/5 miles for the three workouts, building up to 5 miles/8 miles/8 miles by the seventh day. Then on the eighth day, we did a single, 20-mile run, which ended by running all the way up College Hill. After that ordeal, the regular-season workouts almost seemed easy.
I know that the specter of training week motivated me to maintain a decent level of fitness in the summer. Those who failed to do so either suffered greatly or were unable to complete all the training week runs. I recall Gene taking us out to the golf course to practice jumping the creek He had us land on the trail leg. Although it was a counterintuitive way to jump, it really worked. You can’t jump quite as far as when landing on the lead leg, but Gene’s method was very effective in maintaining balance and momentum, which were beneficial in a cross country race.
Huawei demonstrates resilience amid US-China tech tensions, projecting nearly $100 billion in sales for 2023.
Businesses and government agencies must scan code for RSA & old protocols, replacing them with post-quantum cryptography to thwart quantum threats to encryption.
The UK carrier said they had to ‘get creative’ to reach the islanders.
London-based carrier Openreach has deployed “world-first engineering” as part of its efforts to connect residents on a remote Scottish island.
The 323.6-meter-long ship is like a floating city.
China is set to make maritime history as the Adora Magic City, the nation’s first domestically built cruise ship, prepares for its maiden voyage from Shanghai on January 1.
Operated by CSSC Carnival Cruise Shipping, a joint venture between China State Shipbuilding Corp. and Carnival Corp. from the US, this 323.6-meter-long marvel is not just a cruise ship; it’s a floating city designed to offer a taste of home to Chinese travelers while venturing overseas.
Luxury on the waves: Features of Adora Magic City
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) ongoing Run 3 experiment has presented its initial findings about the elusive dark photons.
The Large Hadron Collider, located at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) near Geneva, Switzerland, is the world’s most powerful and biggest particle accelerator.
It is made up of a 27-kilometer ring of superconducting magnets and accelerating structures that accelerate protons and other heavy particles to near-light speeds. The LHC is meant to smash these particles, allowing scientists to investigate the fundamental features of matter as well as the forces that govern the universe.
The LHC’s Run 3 experiment began in July of last year.
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