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GitHub Copilot is now available to businesses. But legal questions around the tool might discourage some from adopting it.

Researchers at Google DeepMind say their AlphaCode AI program can keep up with the average human coder in standardized programming contests.

Today, Canva launches Magic Write, a GPT-3 powered AI text generation tool. Can more mainstream apps like Microsoft Word and Googe Docs be far behind?

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Kite, the startup that tried to bring AI-assisted coding to the market, is shutting down and open sourcing the majority of its code.

Founder Adam Smith said Kite was unsuccessful in taking off because machine learning models today ‘don’t understand the structure of code’.

From 2014 to 2021, Kite was a startup using AI to help developers write code. We have stopped working on Kite, and are no longer supporting the Kite software.Thank you to everyone who used our product, and thank you to our team members and investors who made this journey possible.

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Thanks to generative AI, it appears to be far easier to automate rather difficult creative tasks than to automate relatively simple programming tasks.

Class-action complaint contends that training the AI system on public GitHub repos violates the legal rights of creators who posted the code under open-source licenses.