Subj : Copilot Chat will let developers ask whatever questions they like
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Tue Jan 02 2024 12:15:06

Copilot Chat will let developers ask whatever questions they like about 
GitHub code

Date:
Tue, 02 Jan 2024 12:00:11 +0000

Description:
GPT-4-powered GitHub Copilot Chat answers all of your coding questions, and 
now in more places.

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GitHub is putting its generative AI-powered Copilot Chat in the hands of even 
more customers with the latest iteration, which is now available in Visual 
Studio Code and Visual Studio. 

The tool is designed to allow coders to ask and receive answers to 
coding-related questions, and was already available to Copilot for Business 
customers. More recently, individual Copilot customers had access to the 
GPT-4-powered productivity tool . 

Now, it is available in Microsofts IDEs as part of paid GitHub Copilot 
subscriptions. Verified teachers, students, and certain open-source project 
maintainers will continue to get it for free. GitHub Copilot Chat for more 
customers 

GitHub Product Management VP Shuyin Zhao told TechCrunch : As home to the 
worlds developers, weve brought to market what is now the most widely adopted 
AI developer tool in history. 

A GitHub help document says that Copilot Chat can answer questions about 
syntax, programming concepts, test cases, debugging, and more. 

Although its trained on widely available public data and uses a lot of the 
same technology as the popular ChatGPT tool that has been available for more 
than 12 months, GitHub says that Copilot Chat is not designed to answer 
non-coding questions or provide general information on topics outside of 
coding. 

GitHub itself admits that the chatbot could produce inaccurate code, security 
risks, and biases, as well as matches with public code. However, the tool is 
designed to be a human aid, instead offering itself as a powerful code 
explainer and fixer. 

 TechCrunch s Kyle Wiggers asked Zhao whether codebase owners would be able 
to opt out of training the OpenAI model. Zhao confirmed that this could not 
be possible, suggesting that users with privacy concerns should make their 
codebases private in the first instance. 

Looking ahead, the future for GitHub Copilot remains precarious. Several 
months ago it was reported that some users were using more Copilot credits 
than their monthly fee budgets for, leaving the business unprofitable in some 
cases. 

 TechRadar Pro has asked the Microsoft-owned platform how it intends to 
address these profitability issues, but we did not receive an immediate 
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