{"id":163334,"date":"2023-05-04T15:23:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T20:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/hugging-face-and-servicenow-release-a-free-code-generating-model"},"modified":"2023-05-04T15:23:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T20:23:24","slug":"hugging-face-and-servicenow-release-a-free-code-generating-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/hugging-face-and-servicenow-release-a-free-code-generating-model","title":{"rendered":"Hugging Face and ServiceNow release a free code-generating model"},"content":{"rendered":"

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AI startup Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research, ServiceNow\u2019s R&D division, have released StarCoder, a free alternative to code-generating AI systems along the lines of GitHub\u2019s Copilot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Code-generating systems like DeepMind\u2019s AlphaCode; Amazon\u2019s CodeWhisperer; and OpenAI\u2019s Codex, which powers Copilot, provide a tantalizing glimpse at what\u2019s possible with AI within the realm of computer programming. Assuming the ethical, technical and legal issues are someday ironed out (and AI-powered coding tools don\u2019t cause more bugs and security exploits than they solve<\/a>), they could cut development costs substantially while allowing coders to focus on more creative tasks.<\/p>\n

According to a study<\/a> from the University of Cambridge, at least half of developers\u2019 efforts are spent debugging and not actively programming, which costs the software industry an estimated $312 billion per year. But so far, only a handful<\/a> of code-generating AI systems have been made freely available to the public \u2014 reflecting the commercial incentives of the organizations building them (see: Replit<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AI startup Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research, ServiceNow\u2019s R&D division, have released StarCoder, a free alternative to code-generating AI systems along the lines of GitHub\u2019s Copilot. Code-generating systems like DeepMind\u2019s AlphaCode; Amazon\u2019s CodeWhisperer; and OpenAI\u2019s Codex, which powers Copilot, provide a tantalizing glimpse at what\u2019s possible with AI within the realm of computer programming. Assuming [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1496,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-law","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163334","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=163334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}