Microsoft updates GitHub Copilot to GPT-4 model

Microsoft, which owns GitHub, is overhauling its Copilot system to integrate the new GPT-4 model and provide support for voice chat. The company is also updating its Copilot X system, which will allow the chatbot to recognise errors in code and explain how to fix them or where a better solution can be used.

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"With Copilot X we're laying out our future vision of Copilot, which means AI is at every step of the developer lifecycle," - explains GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke in an interview with The Verge, - It will fundamentally influence the developer experience."

Help can come in the form of analysing code for security vulnerabilities, explaining how blocks of code work, or even helping to rewrite parts or adding helpful comments for someone who is later to review the code. GitHub Copilot can sit right next to your integrated development environment (IDE), ready to receive commits.

GitHub Copilot, which has been added to the technical preview, goes beyond just detecting bugs or auto-complete comments. It's more like a real programming assistant, as implemented in Microsoft 365. So now, for example, if you are given code from several years ago with minimal documentation, you can call Copilot to help you and it will write everything down for you.

Source: The Verge