GitHub Copilot -- A New Generation of AI Programmers

When OpenAI released GPT-3 last year, people got surprised by its ability to generate code from natural language prompts. Sharif Shameem and others excitedly shared their discoveries and soon the hype -- and the worry -- went through the roof. But GPT-3 was nowhere near being a great programmer. It's a notable feat that it could understand an English text and transform it into a chunk of code, but it performed mediocrely. OpenAI and Microsoft (now backing their projects financially) saw a very promising commercial product in GPT-3's coding abilities and soon started to develop another language model; a programmer AI.