GitHub Copilot gets smarter with chat and voice support

GitHub now uses OpenAI’s latest GPT-4 model, becomes a true Coding companion beyond just auto-completing code and comments. Copilot now includes chat and voice support.

GitHub Copilot is a cutting-edge AI tool developed by OpenAI in collaboration with Microsoft that helps developers write code faster and more efficiently. It is a powerful tool that uses natural language processing and machine learning algorithms to assist developers in writing code in multiple programming languages. Initially the tool was developed using OpenAI’s Codex model, a descendant of state-of-the-art GPT-3 natural language processing model, which was fine-tuned specifically for code generation tasks.

It is important to note that, in less than two years since its launch, GitHub Copilot is so popular among developer communities and acclaimed to write 46% of developers code and increase productivity up to 55%.

With the upgrade of GPT-4 model, Copilot includes sophisticated features that would drastically change software development as an AI pair programmer. This way, Copilot will transform into a readily accessible AI assistant throughout the entire development lifecycle.

A ChatGPT-like experience in your editor

GitHub Copilot sits at the side of your integrated development environment (IDE), ready to accept commands and natively integrates with both VS Code and Visual Studio. With the new chat-based interface, it can do far more than suggesting code. Copilot can recognize the code of a developer, understand the error messages that are displayed, and it is deeply embedded into the IDE. Developers can ask it to fix the code written, ask it to explain the code, and even Copilot can write unit test cases effectively.

Copilot for Pull Requests

GitHub Copilot is also coming to pull requests to help developers create AI-generated descriptions. Tags are automatically completed by GitHub Copilot based on what code has changed, and developers can then review and edit them.

Copilot for Docs

GitHub Copilot for Docs is still an experimental feature that uses a chat interface to provide users with AI-generated responses to questions about documentation – including questions developers have about the languages, frameworks, and technologies. GitHub will extend this functionality to any organization’s repositories and their internal documentation very soon. Developers will be able to ask questions (via a chat like interface) about documentation, code, or in-house software in their organization and get instant answers.

Copilot for command line interface (CLI)

Developers also spend a large amount of time using the command line interface. So it is important to have Copilot enable them in the terminal applications as well. GitHub Copilot CLI can provide assistance right into your terminal. It can compose commands and loops, and help you with relevant help to satisfy your query.

GitHub Copilot has already played a major role in developer productivity for more than a million people, helping developers code up to 55 percent faster, according to GitHub. This will increase even more with these new chat, voice and AI integrated features. Developers started seeing GitHub Copilot as a valuable tool that can help them focus on more creative and complex programming tasks, allowing them to create more innovative and sophisticated software.

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