This product by GitHub has come up 4 times on Lex Fridman. 3 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Andrej Karpathy, Guido van Rossum, Lex Fridman, Wojciech Zaremba. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2021-08-29 and the most recent from 2023-03-25. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Every time it came up
Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #367
“even just the leap to actively using co-pilot like using a generation of code it makes you nervous but ultimately your my life is much better as a programmer”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Sam Altman: CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, DALL-E, Codex and Whisper. Former president of Y Combinator and a leading voice on AGI development and safety. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on GPT-4, AGI safety, the iterative-deployment philosophy, bias, jobs, and the future of intelligence.
Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #341
“I use it every day and it really writes a lot of code for me and usually it's slightly wrong but it still saves me typing”— Guido van Rossum
The guest here is Guido van Rossum: Creator of the Python programming language and its former Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL). A veteran software engineer who has worked at Google, Dropbox, and Microsoft. Python's creator Guido van Rossum on why Python 3.11 got faster, static typing, the GIL, and programming as a social, evolutionary craft.
Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #333
“he's copilot I love it and it's free for me but I would pay for it yeah I think it's very good”— Andrej Karpathy
The guest here is Andrej Karpathy: Former director of AI at Tesla and a founding member of OpenAI, previously a researcher at Stanford. One of the most influential figures in deep learning, known for his teaching (CS231n) and hands-on explanations of neural networks. Andrej Karpathy on Tesla's vision-only self-driving, Optimus, the Transformer, aliens, simulation theory, and the path to AGI.
Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #215
“compiled is the first product and developed by github... co-pilot is actually as you code it suggests you code completions”— Wojciech Zaremba
The guest here is Wojciech Zaremba: Co-founder of OpenAI who leads its language and code-generation teams (GPT-3, Codex, GitHub Copilot) and previously led OpenAI's robotics efforts. OpenAI's Wojciech Zaremba explains GPT-3, Codex and Copilot while weaving in consciousness-as-compression, love as shared reward functions, and meditation.
