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> It'd be so interesting to take a peek into an alternate reality where CoPilot has been released by Google or Tesla(!) instead of Microsoft. My gut feeling is
by thayne 5y ago
> It'd be so interesting to take a peek into an alternate reality where CoPilot has been released by Google or Tesla(!) instead of Microsoft. My gut feeling is that the reaction would've been very different depending on the company that released the tool.
I really doubt that. I do think the reaction would be more favorable if the project was itself open source.
- qayxc 5y agoWell, GTP-3 isn't open source, yet the Twitter-sphere was ecstatic about its code generation features. It isn't even new at all [0], [1], [2] - it's just getting exposure because people start actually using it. GPT-3 still forms the basis of Codex, which is the basis of CoPilot. None of these are Open Source and even if they were - what exactly do you think that would change? The models are black boxes, they are too big to even run on consumer level hardware, let alone train or finetune and the code of CoPilot is most likely just API calls, glue code, some post-processing and integration into VS Code. In short, no I don't agree that an open source product would've helped with people's opinion and it would've been irrational even, because there'd still be no difference in the core functionality and what people are complaining about. [0] https://sourceai.dev https://sourceai.dev [1] https://gpt3demo.com/category/code-generation https://gpt3demo.com/category/code-generation [2] https://www.datacamp.com/community/blog/gpt3 https://www.datacamp.com/community/blog/gpt3