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Does Microsoft allow Copilot use on their products? Can MSOffice or Azure or Windows developers use Copilot to write code? I've been waiting to find that out b

Does Microsoft allow Copilot use on their products? Can MSOffice or Azure or Windows developers use Copilot to write code? I've been waiting to find that out before I go anywhere near this kind of thing.

sebzim4500 4y ago
I'm not sure if this has ever been stated publically but it is my understanding that MSFT dogfooded copilot a lot just before/after the launch. I'm not sure if they are doing this still, but I don't see why they would have stopped.
belval 4y ago
Not Microsoft and not Copilot, but Amazon is encouraging us to use CodeWhisperer at work. That being said I don't think the CodeWhisperer model was trained on non-permissive data so maybe that's why. https://aws.amazon.com/codewhisperer/faqs/ https://aws.amazon.com/codewhisperer/faqs/
- JohnFen 4y ago
  Where does the FAQ say that? I see that it says it was trained, in part, on open source code. That's pretty vague in terms of determining permission.
  - belval 4y ago
    That's why I said "I think", it's not really clear. That being said: > Will CodeWhisperer produce code that looks similar to its training data > If CodeWhisperer detects that its output matches particular open-source training data, the built-in reference tracker will notify you with a reference to the license type (for example, MIT or Apache) and a URL for the open-source project. They seem to at least have some protections in place to prevent CodeWhisperer from spitting out existing code without attribution as shown in the Twitter thread. They also only mention MIT and Apache.
whaleofatw2022 4y ago
Bigger question is whether Microsoft used all of their internal code to help train. If not is is a good indication of trust
- smegsicle 4y ago
  last i heard was no, they did not include their own code in the training set
  - blibble 4y ago
    would anyone pay for a product trained on the Microsoft Teams and Sharepoint codebases?
- tonyedgecombe 4y ago
  That would be handy for the ReactOS guys if they did.

sebzim4500 4y ago

I'm not sure if this has ever been stated publically but it is my understanding that MSFT dogfooded copilot a lot just before/after the launch. I'm not sure if they are doing this still, but I don't see why they would have stopped.

belval 4y ago

Not Microsoft and not Copilot, but Amazon is encouraging us to use CodeWhisperer at work. That being said I don't think the CodeWhisperer model was trained on non-permissive data so maybe that's why. https://aws.amazon.com/codewhisperer/faqs/ https://aws.amazon.com/codewhisperer/faqs/

JohnFen 4y ago
Where does the FAQ say that? I see that it says it was trained, in part, on open source code. That's pretty vague in terms of determining permission.
- belval 4y ago
  That's why I said "I think", it's not really clear. That being said: > Will CodeWhisperer produce code that looks similar to its training data > If CodeWhisperer detects that its output matches particular open-source training data, the built-in reference tracker will notify you with a reference to the license type (for example, MIT or Apache) and a URL for the open-source project. They seem to at least have some protections in place to prevent CodeWhisperer from spitting out existing code without attribution as shown in the Twitter thread. They also only mention MIT and Apache.

whaleofatw2022 4y ago

Bigger question is whether Microsoft used all of their internal code to help train. If not is is a good indication of trust

smegsicle 4y ago
last i heard was no, they did not include their own code in the training set
- blibble 4y ago
  would anyone pay for a product trained on the Microsoft Teams and Sharepoint codebases?
tonyedgecombe 4y ago
That would be handy for the ReactOS guys if they did.