Gitlab’s AI-assisted code suggestions

Post by JoshTriplett » Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 9:24 PM UTC

dnsmichi wrote: post #42

JoshTriplett wrote: post #9

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GitLab seems to be a lot more responsive to feedback. It'd be worth asking them if they can publicly document their training set and provide a list of licenses and copyright notices.

GitLab team member here. The training data is documented in https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/code_sugg... AI Transparency is important, all available AI features provide documentation for training data, and are built with privacy first. The GitLab Duo announcement adds more feature details and plans. https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2023/06/22/meet-gitlab-duo-the... The AI/ML blog series provides insig…

Post by __loam » Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 9:27 PM UTC

jameshart wrote: post #66

jedbrown wrote: post #29

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Even MIT licensed code requires you to preserve the copyright and permission notice. If a human did what these language models are doing (output derivative works with the copyright and license stripped), it would be a license violation. When humans want to create a new implementation with clean IP, they have one team study the IP-encumbered code and write a spec, then a different team writes a new implementation acco…

There’s a clear separation between the training process which looks at code and outputs nothing but weights, and the generation process which takes in weights and prompts and produces code. The weights are an intermediate representation that contains nothing resembling the original code.

Post by 62951413 » Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 9:28 PM UTC

phil917 wrote: post #46

I just canceled my Copilot subscription last night. I definitely never saw the productivity boost that I’ve seen so many claim. I actually feel like the suggestions seemed to get worse during my month of using it for some reason. Towards the end, it started suggesting these large blocks of code (another issue I had with the interface as well) which were very not relevant to what I was attempting to write. All in all,…

Post by lolinder » Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 9:29 PM UTC

renewiltord wrote: post #14

Going to be interesting. Github had the advantage that they were offering Copilot into an audience of people who just defaulted to them. Gitlab on the other hand is for people who are into license wars, etc. so the AI product is going to be offered to a hostile audience.

Post by AlotOfReading » Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 9:31 PM UTC

Spivak wrote: post #43

johndough wrote: post #39

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GitHub Copilot copying Quake's fast inverse square root function is a famous example where Copilot copied GPL-licensed code only given the comment // fast inverse square root https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710287

I mean if you ask the tool to produce a specific algorithm by it's very famous name then that's on you. If you ask DALL-E to draw Pikachu you can't be suprised Pikachu when it's a copyright violation.

    Complete the function for an sht21 driver [code omitted]

    static inline int sht21_rh_ticks_to_per_cent_mille(int ticks)
    {
    ticks &= ~0x0003; /* clear status bits /
    /* Formula RH = -6 + 125 * SRH / 2^16 from data sheet 6.1,
    * optimized for integer fixed point (3 digits) arithmetic
    */
    return ((15625 * ticks) >> 13) - 6000;
    }