GitHub is my copilot

Posted Jul 15, 2021 15:51 UTC (Thu) by IanKelling (subscriber, #89418)
Parent article: GitHub is my copilot

GitHub copilot is SaaSS (Service as a Software Substitute) https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-reall...

GitHub is my copilot

Posted Jul 16, 2021 5:27 UTC (Fri) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link] (2 responses)

Its more than just software though, it is also an actual service too, because even if GitHub and Copilot was fully Free Software, I still couldn't retrain the Copilot model from scratch and use it to write code; because I can't afford the disk space to store all of the input code, the servers and GPUs required to train the model and the probably large amount of resources it takes to use the model to write code. Other large well resourced tech companies could replicate that and provide a second service though.

GitHub is my copilot

Posted Jul 26, 2021 13:23 UTC (Mon) by immibis (subscriber, #105511) [Link] (1 responses)

What if you had the model they trained? I don't know about Copilot, but I believe the largest GPT-3 model is in the 250GB-1TB range (depending on what level of precision they used). Sure, you'd have a hard time fitting it in RAM, but it's not *impossible* to run yourself.

GitHub is my copilot

Posted Jul 27, 2021 1:41 UTC (Tue) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

I definitely don't have computing resources required for that, nor the economic resources required to acquire them.