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- Copilot Writes Fast. Does It Write Safe?
New academic research digs into how often GitHub Copilot's AI-generated code suggestions contain insecure patterns.
- DeepMind's Gopher Shows What 280 Billion Parameters Buys You
DeepMind's new Gopher model outperforms GPT-3 on many benchmarks, and the accompanying papers are as interesting as the model itself.
- GitHub Copilot Is Done Being a VS Code Exclusive
Copilot's new Neovim and JetBrains plugins mean the AI pair programmer isn't tied to one editor anymore.
- Copilot Packs Its Bags: GitHub's AI Pair Programmer Leaves VS Code Behind
GitHub shipped a Copilot plugin for Neovim, with JetBrains support landing days later, taking the AI coding assistant beyond its VS Code roots.
- Can AI Moderation Really Police a Platform the Size of Facebook?
The Facebook Files reporting reignites the debate over whether automated content moderation can catch harm at billion-post scale.
- GitHub Copilot's Preview Is a Glimpse of How We'll All Code Soon
GitHub's Copilot technical preview pairs Codex with VS Code, nailing Python functions on the first try 43% of the time.
- Who Owns the Code an AI Writes for You?
As Copilot and Codex go live in preview, developers and lawyers are fighting over whether AI-generated code exposes companies to copyright risk.
- OpenAI Cracks Open Codex, the Brain Behind GitHub Copilot
OpenAI's new Codex API, a GPT-3 descendant trained on 54 million GitHub repos, solves over 70% of its benchmark problems and already powers Copilot.
- Is GitHub Copilot Actually Going to Change How We Write Code?
GitHub's AI pair programmer is autocompleting whole functions in VS Code, and developers are split on what that means for the craft.
- DeepMind Just Gave Away 350,000 Protein Structures for Free
DeepMind and EMBL-EBI opened a public database of AlphaFold-predicted structures covering nearly half the human proteome.
- GitHub Copilot Is Great at Autocomplete. Whose Code Is It Actually Using?
Weeks into Copilot's preview, developers are asking hard questions about training an AI coder on public repos, including copyleft-licensed code.
- RoseTTAFold Just Put Protein Folding on Your Gaming PC
The Baker Lab's RoseTTAFold predicts protein structure in minutes on consumer hardware, landing days after DeepMind's AlphaFold2 paper.
- GitHub Copilot Wants to Finish Your Sentences
GitHub and OpenAI launched Copilot, a Codex-powered AI pair programmer that suggests code as you type, starting as a free VS Code preview.
- The Rumor Mill Around GitHub's AI Pair Programmer Is In Overdrive
Developers are swapping screenshots of a mysterious GitHub tool that autocompletes whole functions from a comment, and OpenAI's Codex looks like the engine.
- Microsoft Build 2021: Low-Code Meets GPT-3, and Linux GUIs Come to Windows
Build 2021 kicks off with Power Fx, a GPT-3-powered formula language for Power Platform, plus native Linux GUI app support in WSL.
- Google's MUM Wants to Kill the Multi-Search Habit
Google unveiled MUM at I/O, an AI model spanning ~75 languages built to answer complex search questions that used to take several separate searches.
- The GPT-3 App Store Nobody Officially Built
OpenAI's widening GPT-3 API access has spawned copywriting, chatbot, and code tools that look like early drafts of an AI pair programmer.
- Cortana Quietly Exits Your Phone
Microsoft ended support for Cortana on Android, iOS, and standalone speakers today, retreating to a Windows-only productivity role.
- GPT-3, One Year On: What Businesses Are Actually Building
A look at the copywriting tools, code assistants, and chatbots built on GPT-3's API a year after wider access opened, plus DALL-E's tantalizing preview.
- One Year Into the GPT-3 API: What Are Developers Actually Building?
A year after OpenAI opened commercial access to GPT-3, a look at the copywriting tools, chatbots, and code helpers developers are shipping.
- Can an AI Chatbot Actually Be Your Valentine?
A Valentine's Day look at Replika and the growing world of AI companion apps built on large language models.
- GPT-3-Style Models Are Sneaking Into Everyday Developer Tools
As access to GPT-3 stays limited to a waitlist, developers are already prototyping code suggestions, writing aids, and image generation on top of it.
- OpenAI's DALL-E Turns Text Prompts Into Original Images
OpenAI unveiled DALL-E, a GPT-3-based model that generates original images straight from written descriptions.
- Software and AI Trends Worth Watching in 2021
Remote-first dev culture, early GPT-3 experimentation, and a brewing chip shortage set the stage for software in 2021.
- 2020 Was the Year AI Stopped Being a Demo
A look back at GPT-3 and AlphaFold, the two AI stories that made 2020 the year machine learning stopped feeling like a lab trick.
- DeepMind Says It Cracked the Protein-Folding Problem
AlphaFold2's CASP14 results put it near experimental accuracy on protein structure prediction, a 50-year grand challenge in biology.
- Meet GPT-3: the New York Times brings OpenAI's language model to the mainstream
Cade Metz's NYT feature introduces GPT-3 to a mass audience, reigniting debate over AI that writes and codes.
- Does GPT-3 Understand Anything, or Just Sound Like It Does?
As more developers get API access, GPT-3's fluent code and prose reignite the debate over pattern-matching versus real reasoning.
- Inside the Invite-Only API: What Developers Are Quietly Building With GPT-3
GPT-3's private beta API is still closed off, but a growing group of developers is already shipping chatbots, copywriting tools, and code generators on top of it.
- Is AI Actually Writing Code Yet?
A look at Kite, TabNine, and GPT-3's promise for autocomplete-style AI coding tools, and how far they really are from writing features unsupervised.