Why Do Programmers Enjoy Artificial Intelligence That Can Keep Them Occupied?
Written byTimes Magazine
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- "When you start coding, you feel smart, like in the Matrix movies," says Janine Luke, a 26-year-old software engineer who works in London.
- Born in Hong Kong, he started his career in cruise ship marketing in the south of France but found it "a little repetitive and shallow."
So after work, he started learning to code, followed by a 15-week programming course. And a week later, it started there. "Two and a half years later, I think this is the best decision I've ever made," he said. When she started the company, she was the first female developer on her team. Now she spends her spare time encouraging other women, people of color, and LGBT people to code.
He says the most exciting change for programmers like him has been the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) tools that can bite a bigger and bigger piece of programming itself. In June, GitHub, a San Francisco-based code hosting platform with 56 million users, launched Copilot's new artificial intelligence tool.
You start by entering a few code characters, and the AI will suggest how you should solve it. Instagram Caption founder Mike Krieger praises AI coding app.
"The only amazing machine learning app I've ever seen," Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger told Copilot.
It's based on artificial intelligence called GPT-3, introduced last summer by OpenAI, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence lab founded by Elon Musk. This GPT engine (which means generative pre-training) does "a straightforward, but a huge thing - it delivers the next letter in the text," explains Grzegorz Jakacki, founder of Warsaw Codility runs a famous recruitment test.
OpenAI trains AI in texts that are now available online such as books, Wikipedia, and hundreds of thousands of websites, a diet that is "something chosen but in all kinds of human languages," he said. And "ghosts, rules are not taught in a particular language," added Mr. Jakacki.
The result is a believable piece of text.
Caption can make "stupid mistakes," says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
Eventually, the hype about GPT-3 became "too much," and people had to remind AI, "Sometimes it makes a lot of stupid mistakes," tweeted Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. However, GitHub - whose owner Microsoft obtained an exclusive license to use GPT-3 in September - decided to train another similar model. But this time, you're teaching the AI on the software source code instead.
GitHub is the world's most prominent source code host with at least 28 million public repositories (where software packages are stored). So the company gave Copilot a healthy diet with a general code. As a result, Copilot "can provide a relatively good solution, although it sometimes requires some adjustments," said Ms. Luk, who tried to question the coding of the AI.
As a programmer, he didn't see the tool as risky but liked the idea that AI helped him with the "boring part" of coding, like checking complex strings called regular expressions that he always had to "triple".
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