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dleslie on July 5, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright

This is an interesting perspective; it does, indeed, seem like Copilot is a lossy compression algorithm wrapped in a semantic search interface.

Spivak on July 5, 2021 [–]

I mean that’s essentially what all ML is if you want to think about it that way.

Training is the process of creating a space where searching for the right thing within it gives you the answer to some problem you have.

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