The open-source developer platform GitHub, which is owned by Microsoft, has revealed the debut of Copilot X, the company's perception of the future of AI-powered software development.
GitHub has adopted OpenAI's new GPT-4 model and added chat and voice support for Copilot, bringing Copilot to pull requests, the command line, and documentation to answer questions about developers' projects.
'From reading docs to writing code to submitting pull requests and beyond, we're working to personalize GitHub Copilot for every team, project, and repository it's used in, creating a radically improved software development lifecycle,' Thomas Dohmke, CEO at GitHub, said in a statement.
'At the same time, we will continue to innovate and update the heart of GitHub Copilot -- the AI pair programmer that started it all,' he added.
Copilot chat recognizes what code a developer has entered and what error messages are displayed, and it is deeply integrated into the IDE (Integrated Development Environment).
As stated by the company, Copilot chat will join GitHub's previously demoed voice-to-code AI technology extension, which it is now calling 'Copilot voice,' where developers can verbally give natural language prompts. Furthermore, developers can now sign up for a technical preview of the first AI-generated pull request descriptions on GitHub.
This new feature is powered by OpenAI's new GPT-4 model and adds support for AI-powered tags in pull request descriptions via a GitHub app that organization admins and individual repository owners can install.
As per the company, GitHub is also going to launch Copilot for docs, an experimental tool that uses a chat interface to provide users with AI-generated responses to documentation questions, including questions about the languages, frameworks, and technologies they are using.
