GitHub’s AI-Powered Co-Pilot Will Help You Write Code for $10 a Month

Microsoft-owned GitHub is launching its own Copilot AI tool today, which helps suggest lines of code for developers within their code editor. GitHub originally teamed up with OpenAI last year to release a preview of Copilot, a Generally available to all developers today.

At $10 a month or $100 a year, GitHub Copilot is able to suggest the next line of code where developers write in an integrated development environment (IDE) such as Visual Studio Code, Neovim, and JetBrains IDEs. The co-pilot can suggest complete methods and complex algorithms along with standard code and unit testing assistance.

More than 1.2 million developers have signed up to use GitHub Co-Pilot Preview For the past 12 months, it will remain a free tool for certified students and supervisors of popular open source projects. In files where it is enabled, GitHub says Almost 40 percent of code is now written by KoPilot.

“Just like the advent of assemblers and open source, we believe AI-assisted programming will fundamentally change the nature of software development, giving developers a new tool to write code easier and faster so they can be happier with their lives,” says GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke.

Microsoft invested 1 billion dollars At OpenAI, the research firm now led by former Y Combinator President Sam Altman, led to creation Copilot GitHub. It is built on the OpenAI Codex, a descendant of OpenAI’s groundbreaking GPT-3 language generation algorithm. GitHub Copilot has been controversial. Just days after the preview was released, there was Questions about the legality of the co-pilot It is trained on publicly available code published on GitHub. Copyright issues aside, one study It also found that about 40 percent of Copilot’s output contained vulnerabilities.

Microsoft isn’t the only company working on automated AI tools to help with coding. Last year, Google-owned company DeepMind revealed a file of AI system called AlphaCode It was designed to write computer programs “on a competitive level”. AlphaCode has been tested against Icons, a competitive coding platform, and achieved a “distinguished rank” which places it in the top 54 percent of human programmers. The challenges are different from what the average programmer might face, but they illustrate how AI coding systems can help programmers in the future.

GitHub Pilot is Available to all developers Today, with a free 60-day trial. GitHub will offer a Pilot to businesses later this year.