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Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by rexreed on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @02:16PM (#31827213)
Of course GPT-3 doesn't "understand" what you are doing. All it's doing is generating high probability text based on a huge training corpus. It's guessing what text will come next. That doesn't mean it understands jack squat. It's basically a parrot with a huge database. Polly want a program?
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Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by toyg on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @02:47PM (#31827553)
The fact that such a program is so hyped, is actually an indicator of how much boilerplate and wheel-reinvention goes on among programmers every day.

The state of the sector is somewhat embarrassing. We have armies of monkeys well-paid to bang out the same Java/Javascript/C#/Python over, and over, and over...

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Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by rexreed on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @05:22PM (#31829269)
Microsoft spent a Billion dollars for an exclusive license of GPT-3, and now they want their return. Expect to see GPT-3 hyped on every platform (including Github).
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Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by eurasiantiger on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @12:42AM (#31832094)
That is also how your brain works.
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