{"id":124429,"date":"2021-06-29T15:23:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T22:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/github-and-openai-launch-a-new-ai-tool-that-generates-its-own-code"},"modified":"2021-06-29T15:23:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T22:23:49","slug":"github-and-openai-launch-a-new-ai-tool-that-generates-its-own-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/github-and-openai-launch-a-new-ai-tool-that-generates-its-own-code","title":{"rendered":"GitHub and OpenAI launch a new AI tool that generates its own code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/github-and-openai-launch-a-new-ai-tool-that-generates-its-own-code2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It can assist coders by generating and autocompleting code for their projects.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>GitHub and OpenAI have launched a technical preview of a new AI tool <a href=\"https:\/\/copilot.github.com\/\">called Copilot<\/a>, which lives inside the Visual Studio Code editor and autocompletes code snippets.<\/p>\n<p>Copilot does more than just parrot back code it\u2019s seen before, according to GitHub. It instead analyzes the code you\u2019ve already written and generates new matching code, including specific functions that were previously called. Examples on the project\u2019s website include automatically writing the code to import tweets, draw a scatterplot, or grab a Goodreads rating.<\/p>\n<p>It works best with Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, and Go, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/github.blog\/2021-06-29-introducing-github-copilot-ai-pair-programmer\/\">blog post<\/a> from GitHub CEO Nat Friedman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can assist coders by generating and autocompleting code for their projects. GitHub and OpenAI have launched a technical preview of a new AI tool called Copilot, which lives inside the Visual Studio Code editor and autocompletes code snippets. Copilot does more than just parrot back code it\u2019s seen before, according to GitHub. It instead [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}