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Do AI’s tell good jokes? Let’s find out if GitHub Copilot can make me laugh.
When I first heard of GitHub copilot and that it was a “code completion” extension, I thought to myself how great — another useless paid program that occasionally fills in my variables to the wrong values.
I could not have been more wrong.
For those of you who don’t know what GitHub Copilot is, it’s not just any code completion program: it produces results so scary it makes me fear for my career. It uses the highly advanced GPT-3 deep-learning algorithm to “synthesize” code that fits into your project.
Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 is an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. It is the third-generation language prediction model in the GPT-n series created by OpenAI, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research laboratory.
Now, When you have one of the most advanced programs on the planet, what better use of this technology could there be than to ask it jokes?
The Funny Business
Copilot has some mental blocks occasionally, so you might need to push it in the right direction. Let’s ask it to tell us a joke.
