Microsoft Corp’s GitHub unit has created a revolutionary coding tool, Copilot, using OpenAI’s language-generation tools. Now, the tech giant has announced the newest update to the service, Copilot X. This new version is designed to let programmers ask how to complete coding tasks with a voice or a chat window. The chat window also covers explanations, bug fixes, and testing for the code.
The initial version of Copilot was released in 2021 and quickly drew attention from the coding community, with hundreds of thousands of users signing up by November. As OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot has gained in popularity, more companies have followed Microsoft in using the research lab’s technologies in their products. To build on the success of Copilot, Microsoft is bringing in OpenAI’s latest language model, GPT-4, to the service. This will give users a wider range of capabilities when interacting with the chatbot. The existing completion tools will continue to use a faster AI optimized for quick results, while the new chat feature will use the newer, more accurate GPT-4.
Developers can now sign up for a waitlist to preview the new version of Copilot X. Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub, has expressed hope that this AI-driven tool can eventually be used for educational purposes. He is scheduled to join a professor at Duke University in demonstrating Copilot X and its potential to make learning easier and faster.
Microsoft Corp is an American tech company focused on providing software and services based on computer technology. The company has been a leader in the industry since its founding in 1975 and is known for the development of the world’s most popular operating system, Windows. Microsoft is also the parent company behind a variety of popular services such as Office 365, Azure, and Xbox Live.
Thomas Dohmke is the CEO of Microsoft’s GitHub unit and is responsible for much of the growth in the company’s open source software development. He has been with the company for several years and has contributed to defining the standard for coding collaboration. With the introduction of the Copilot X feature, Dohmke is continuing to make strides in transforming the way developers write code.
