From the course: AI-Powered Programming with GitHub Copilot by Microsoft Press

Overview of OpenAI - Github Copilot Tutorial

From the course: AI-Powered Programming with GitHub Copilot by Microsoft Press

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Overview of OpenAI

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- [Teacher] OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research lab that was founded in December 2015. They have both for-profit and not-for-profit entities. Their public website is openai.com and as you'll come to learn, there's many subdomains at openai.com that are relevant to IT professionals and developers who want to consume the OpenAI models that have really taken the world by storm and revolutionized not just the IT industry, but I have friends and family members who have no technical background or interest who are getting great professional and personal benefit by using, for example, the ChatGPT model. OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence, or AGI for short, benefits all humanity and OpenAI, over the last several years, has been scouring the public internet, github.com, public repos, and other public knowledge sources using a technique called machine learning to build what really in GPT is the world's most intelligent conversational bot or conversational AI. Artificial general intelligence is a type of AI that's as capable as a human at performing any intellectual task. With GitHub Copilot, for example, we're obviously doing some kind of coding, whether we're a programmer and we're doing Node.js development, or C#, or Python, or we're an IT professional and we're more interested in shell scripting and PowerShell. We can turn to GitHub Copilot and its generative AI to help us improve our code and also importantly generate net new code for us that can put our careers on an entirely different level. OpenAI and Microsoft are deeply partnered and they're committed to a set of practices called responsible AI. And these practices involve the creation, deployment, and use of AI in a manner that's ethically sound, transparent, accountable, and beneficial for all stakeholders. In point of fact, when you consume these generative AI models, either from OpenAI directly or from Microsoft, you need to agree that you will abide by those principles yourself in your own use. Microsoft scored a huge win by partnering with OpenAI in 2019. It's a multi-billion dollar investment that continues to this day and you've probably noticed that Microsoft is using these OpenAI models, GPT in particular, to power its cloud services and products. Of course, there's GitHub Copilot, that's the centerpiece of this course. There's also the Azure OpenAI service if you want to consume the models via API, privately, securely, and with the ability to fine-tune the models against your own internal line of business data.

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