Ai in Programming

Everyone’s talking about OpenAI’s ChatGPT these days. Somebody also posted a screenshot of a conversation with ChatGPT in which it created a code snippet. GitHub Copilot has an animation demonstrating how it is able to generate code based on the comment, name, and parameters of the function. It goes a step further from the one-liner to generate scaffolding in some MVC web development frameworks, and is likely being considered by every solopreneur.

It’s similar to what we are observing in other applications - AI-generated art works, AI-generated research papers, AI-generated website content. There are concerns about getting access to vast amounts of training data for such AI-models, and there could be copyright infringement claims if the resulting work contains snippets from the training data.