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Yes we have seen a case of an old common and popular square root function that are returned verbatim by GitHub Copilot. Perhaps a case of overfitting since the
by speedgoose 4y ago
Yes we have seen a case of an old common and popular square root function that are returned verbatim by GitHub Copilot. Perhaps a case of overfitting since the code was present many many times in the training dataset, and even has a Wikipedia page.
I haven’t seen more obvious examples since GitHub implemented a feature to prevent this from happening. I probably miss some tweets, but I assume it’s rare.
- williamcotton 4y agoCarmack’s fast inverse square is not subject to copyright in the first place.
- speedgoose 4y agoTrue. I think the comments and the coding style were from famous implementation from the 90s, which could be a copyright issue. The algorithm itself can by copied.