The AI code wars are heating up

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How it started

Writing codification was a slayer app for AI adjacent earlier anyone was truly talking astir AI. In the outpouring of 2021, 18 months earlier the satellite knew the connection "ChatGPT," Microsoft debuted the precise archetypal merchandise of a concern with a nonprofit called OpenAI: a instrumentality called GitHub Copilot that watched developers arsenic they wrote codification and tried to autocomplete snippets and lines for them …

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