GitHub wants AI to help developers code

GitHub is used by more than 30 million developers around the world and hosts repositories for some of the biggest ML-driven open source projects on the planet, but is perhaps less well known for the creation of AI-driven tools to help them do their jobs. VentureBeat sat down with GitHub senior data scientist Omoju Miller to talk about how one of the biggest homes for developers online is performing applied machine learning research to create more AI-driven services. At the GitHub Universe conference Tuesday, a number of major upgrades were made to GitHub and GitHub Enterprise services for businesses. Miller also spoke during the keynote address about Experiments, a new GitHub initiative to explore the use of AI and machine learning meant for developers. The first Experiments prototype named Semantic Code Search launched last month.