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[–] lambipapp@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Naah, the initial GitHub copilot was something else.

[–] Sinthesis@lemmy.today 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was on the Github Copilot Technical Preview (invite in my mailbox says July 16th 2021) and it was GPT-3 (not to be confused with ChatGPT which was introduced with GPT-4)

[–] ErmahgherdDavid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

ChatGPT was built on top of GPT-3.5 which was GPT3 with the new deep reinforcement learning to make it more "conversational", launched 2022. GPT 4 launched in 2023 and before the official launch there was "I have been a good Bing. 😊" Which was.. checks notes... microsoft messing something up again

[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 3 points 20 hours ago

The first time I came across ChatGPT, it was still GPT3, GPT3.5 was coming shortly after.