The first preview of #Windows#Copilot falls short of expectations. Though it promises features like turning on simple settings like switching to dark mode, the #'AI integration' feels far from native. In fact, Copilot feels like a web wrapper, a pane running Bing.com within Microsoft Edge rather than a fully integrated part of Windows
Today's #AIs are really just large statistical models gobbling up billions of data points from all over the internet and regurgitating them without understanding a thing. Like parrots. Super parrots. Very expensive ones.
IMHO it works well in conversation. When somebody says "#AI will take your jobs" you respond "Oh yes, all those billion-dollar super-parrots will do a much better job than me."
I got my Surface Laptop Go onto the Windows Copilot preview. Not especially earth-shaking. Basically, it's the Bing Chat sidebar from Microsoft Edge, but on Windows itself.
I DO like having this interface available outside of the browser, and having a keyboard shortcut key to summon and dismiss it (it takes over Cortana's former Windows Key + C), but otherwise I haven't seen it do any tricks I haven't already seen from ChatGPT and Bing.
@fsf Where can I read about the legal licensing and copyleft issues surrounding generative AI algorithms like LLMs (Large Language Models) like Chat-GPT or Copilot, trained on GPL'd source code?
I wonder if there is a need for a new license that explicitly makes training generative AI on open source code requires the AI model to be open sourced?
Does the FSF have any written opinions or educational materials related to this topic of the relationship between copyleft and generative AI trained on copyleft source code?
Something changed with our business github account. Switched to GitHub enterprise? But ... on GitHub.com still? I dunno. All i know is that it made our access to #Copilot stop being a thing and i'm still deriving good value from it helping me write docs.
Anyway, if you sign up for a personal account BE SURE TO UNCHECK THIS if you work on ANY proprietary / NDA'd code.
Tried to discourage using #Copilot at work because (I claimed) it's making ourselves dependent on a computer that's trying to replace us. I got back (condescendingly) "we already use computers to help us do our jobs".
I feel like it's different. An LLM is not like a better text editor. Am I wrong? If I'm not wrong, how can I express it better?
#Microsoft#GitHub#CoPilot#IA
Vous vous souvenez que Microsoft GitHub s'était pris un procès car son CoPilot copiait du code sans préciser la license ?
Microsoft vient de demander l'annulation de la procédure et pourrait être sur le point de gagner. https://sebsauvage.net/links/?Sh1hiw
"#Microsoft has recently announced Windows #Copilot, an #AI-powered assistant for #Windows11. Windows 👉Copilot sits at the side of #Windows 11, and can summarize content you’re viewing in apps, rewrite it, or even explain it. 👈"
"Moving “Windows 11 increasingly to the cloud” is identified as a..."
one way github #copilot makes me more productive is not having to context switch as much. it's no secret that most of "coding" is actually "reading code". imo it takes a different mindset to write more than a couple lines at a time. it takes me time to get into that mindset, and sometimes i just can't, call it adhd, whatever. but with copilot, i stay in a code reading & reviewing mindset for longer, so i get more done #LLM#LLMs
Just watched an ACM webcast on teaching computer science with tools like Copilot.
The profession of software development isn't about to go away, but it's going to change rapidly. What we teach may also need to change (just as we no longer spend much time on assembly language).
I am concerned that we may be on a path to paying a corporation to use stolen code (and burn a bunch of carbon) to solve our problems.
engaged #copilot to help me with some inline docs... notice some bit in the code and thought "hmm, that could be better...." started to tweak it and copilot was like "here. i got this for you"
It can't write good code, but I'm gradually starting to learn how powerful this can be for ... expediting the creation of code you already know you want to write.
If I'm not dealing with a specialized topic or a legitimately hard problem, I rarely consult StackOverflow or other examples, as I recognize that I'm dealing with a personal blind spot, which makes spending a little extra time solving the problem rewarding in the long run. Add a note to my #zettelkasten and soon enough I'll never have to look at it again.
I feel like tools like #github#copilot will be devastating for any new programmers and their problem solving capacities, just because it will prevent a good deal of them from acquiring the set of conceptual tools required to grow as programmers.
#AI#GenerativeAI#OpenAI#GitHub#Copilot#Microsoft#Programming#SoftwareDevelopment: "OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, GPT-3 and GPT-4, Codex and Copilot AI systems, is the consensus leader in the race to create AI that may take all of our jobs and destroy the human race be the most disruptive technology since the invention of the printing press. OpenAI is also an affiliate of Microsoft, which is also the owner of GitHub, the popular online code repository. According to the complaint, these separate entities are just one big data-sharing family, leveraging their combined resources in non-standard ways such as Microsoft sharing hardware and cloud infrastructure resources in exchange for an ownership interest in OpenAI. According to the complaint, Microsoft’s ongoing relationship with OpenAI has led some to describe Microsoft as “the unofficial owner of OpenAI.” Complaint at 31.
The crux of the complaint is that OpenAI took code that was stored on GitHub and used it as training data to build out AI systems called Codex and Copilot. And while most of the code that was stored in the systems was likely marked “public” and was also open source, the code was subject to certain licensing and attribution requirements that were allegedly ignored when they were used in the training data to create OpenAI’s Codex and Copilot systems." https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2023/06/how-can-ai-models-legally-obtain-training-data-doe-1-v-github-guest-blog-post.htm
I get, and fully support, the... "unhappiness" around #GitHub#Copilot violating people's OS licenses when it suggests uncredited and unlicensed snippets as if they're new creations.
At the same time, using it for writing inline docs faster has been a game changer. I'm writing so many more, and as far as I can tell this can't violate anyone's license, because it's just comments about my code.
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