Friday, and Microsoft is my Copilot

I let the Tetris movie unwind in the background. Banging soundtrack.

Tomorrow I have to smog the F-150. Fingers crossed, otherwise I’ll need a replacement sooner than expected. Morgan Hill smog first, and will fall back from there.

Getting a Copilot

I set up Microsoft’s Copilot using an unofficial Emacs extension. Out-of-the-box the completion is super impressive if not always what I intended. I’d put odds on this being ChatGPT-3.5 turbo or one of the other GPT-3 forks given how it can go down the wrong path.

I have it enabled in org mode, so it’s doing its best to finish my sentences. Given the flexibility of language it’s hard to tell whether this makes me less or more creative, especially without control of the prompting so as to challenge the model to create better completions. Still, this feels like the future of auto-complete and it’s a fascinating non-chat-bot interaction.

Separately, I continue to be blown away by Microsoft’s pioneering moves in the AI space. I’d heard about Copilot but hadn’t realized that it was one of the first consumer applications of GPT-3. Satya is a genius.