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Going Full Send on AI, and the (Positive) Impact of AI on Jobs, with Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft

No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups

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AI as a platform for building assistive tools: GitHub's co-pilot

AI is going to be a platform for building tools that assist people with jobs/nGitHub co-pilot is a coding tool that allows developers to emit code based on natural language input/nGitHub co-pilot requires scrutiny and co-review from developers to determine if it makes sense for their application

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Yeah, I mean, I don't want to turn this into some kind of weird marketing spiel, but you know, we have this point of view that we started with this assumption that AI is going to be a platform and the way that people are going to most usefully make or the way that people are going to make most use of the platform is by building tools that assist people with jobs. So it's like less about these fully autonomous scenarios and more about assistive tech. And so the first thing that we built was GitHub co-pilot, which is a coding tool. It's a thing where you can sort of say a natural language, what you would like a piece of code to do and it emits the code and then you, you as the developer, like the same way that you would take a suggestion from a pair programmer, like you scrutinize it and co-review it and decide whether or not it makes sense for your application. And you know, like that was the first version of GitHub co-pilot that does a bunch of other things now. And so the thing that we have observed is this co-pilot pattern is actually pretty generic and we built a bunch of co-pilots since then. And the way that we built them, like there's a co-pilot stack that looks almost like one of these

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