Will AI Replace Programmers?
OpenAI’s algorithms have opened the floodgates to code-generating AI, but how will it impact software developers?
GitHub recently announced its new code-generating AI: Copilot. Unfortunately, the method that Microsoft-owned GitHub used to gather and use the data powering the machine learning-powered software is questionable at best. It’s so bad that those who use the AI could potentially find themselves in lawsuits.
But GitHub is far from the only company creating code-generating software. For instance, startups such as Enzyme and Debuild are currently building solutions that will allow users to generate code by simply describing what they want to have made. Neither of these startups has products available for the general public yet, but the demos they’ve shown are promising.
There is no doubt in my mind that we’ll see plenty more companies announce code-generating technologies in the next few years.
The culprit behind this recent explosion in code-generating software is OpenAI, an organization that has become famous for its remarkable advances in natural language processing (NLP). OpenAI is providing all of the three companies mentioned above with the underlying algorithms for their software.
