GitHub Copilot is an artificial intelligence tool developed by GitHub and OpenAI to assist users of Visual Studio Code, Neovim, and JetBrains by autocompleting code. It was first announced by GitHub on 29 June 2021.

What does GitHub Copilot do?

GitHub Copilot, described as an "AI pair programmer," debuted this year with a splash, amazing developers with its ability to supply chunks of code when a user is typing in Visual Studio Code and even generate whole applications solely through typed commands.

Is GitHub Copilot legal?

Licensing controversy

This leaves Copilot on untested legal ground, although GitHub states that "training machine learning models on publicly available data is considered fair use across the machine learning community".