{"id":160804,"date":"2023-03-22T16:29:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T21:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/githubs-copilot-goes-beyond-code-completion-adds-a-chat-mode-and-more"},"modified":"2023-03-22T16:29:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T21:29:27","slug":"githubs-copilot-goes-beyond-code-completion-adds-a-chat-mode-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/githubs-copilot-goes-beyond-code-completion-adds-a-chat-mode-and-more","title":{"rendered":"GitHub\u2019s Copilot goes beyond code completion, adds a chat mode and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/githubs-copilot-goes-beyond-code-completion-adds-a-chat-mode-and-more2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GitHub is announcing its Copilot X initiative today, an extension of its work on its popular Copilot code completion tool, which originally launched into preview all the way back in 2021. With this, the Microsoft-owned company is launching a code-centric chat mode for Copilot that helps developers write and debug their code, as well as Copilot for pull requests, AI-generated answers about documentation and more. Unsurprisingly, these new features are powered by OpenAI\u2019s GPT-4, though it\u2019s worth noting that, mostly for latency reasons, the code completion tool remains on GitHub\u2019s Codex model, which it derived from GPT-3.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the new model coming online, we asked ourselves: what\u2019s the next step? What\u2019s the next step for Copilot? We believe that for auto completion, we nailed that scenario,\u201d GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke told me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GitHub is announcing its Copilot X initiative today, an extension of its work on its popular Copilot code completion tool, which originally launched into preview all the way back in 2021. With this, the Microsoft-owned company is launching a code-centric chat mode for Copilot that helps developers write and debug their code, as well as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160804","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}