GitHub Copilot -- A code autocomplete tool on steroids

Recently, Github and OpenAI released one of the most anticipated AI-based tools for developers -- Github Copilot. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool is advertised as a pair programming assistant that does much more than usual code autocomplete tools out there. By no means is Copilot a tool intended to substitute developers in any way. Instead, the tool is meant to be used as an assistant that can facilitate many of the "boring" and "repetitive" parts of programming and lets coders worry about parts of the process that require human thinking and reasoning. It is important to note that GitHub Copilot is based on a recent deep learning model published by OpenAI in a paper called "Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code". This research paper introduces Codex, a GPT-like language model fine-tuned on publicly available code from GitHub.