GitHub, OpenAI release GPT-3-autocomplete combo for programmers

If you're a software developer who's used to flying solo, GitHub has some news: Get ready to welcome AI into the coding cockpit. Yesterday, the Microsoft-owned code repository and software platform announced GitHub Copilot, a tool created in partnership with Microsoft partner OpenAI that can make suggestions as programmers write code in real time. It's built atop OpenAI Codex, an AI model that learned from billions of lines of code. How it works: The tool analyzes your previous lines of code to suggest new code, and even functions, that developers can then accept or ignore. The current version works best with languages like Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, and Go.