GitHub has a new AI-powered tool called Copilot that helps you with code suggestions in your project.

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GitHub is introducing an AI-powered automcompletion tool called GitHub Copilot. The aim is to learn how you write code, and to suggest lines and functions automatically. The tool is available only as a technical preview, so you’ll have to apply to try it via this page.

GitHub introduces an AI pal to help you code better

It looks good but isn’t release but you can join to waitlist

Just wondering how much copyright infringement might be possible with this approach to training an AI?
Copyright covers all derivative works, not just copy-and-paste. Even if Github Copilot doesn’t reproduce exact portions of GPL code, it can still infringe on their copyright if a novel enough portion is recreated. This probably isn’t a problem for Github Copilot, as long as they didn’t include any AGPL code in their training set (which… surely they didn’t, right?!?), but it’s a problem for anyone who uses it.

I need all the help I can get. But this is a good start to something that I hope will improve over time.