AI has made available chatbots which could be used as teaching bots. Harvard University plans to employ an AI chatbot to teach some parts of its popular course — Computer Science 50 : Introduction to Computer Science.
Upgrad, an edtech company, has acquired Harappa Education. It has launched a chatbot called thriveBOT which has been fine tuned for three languages — English, Hindi and Hinglish. ThriveBOT is a virtual teaching assistant. It provides instant support to learners. It encourages in-depth thinking by addressing questions posed by learners.
Some skills have been identified as those which help you in work place — these are called ‘thrive skills’. These include teamwork, public speaking, effective communication, taking ownership, prioritization, credibility, resilience, crisis management etc. These skills are as important as technical skills. Harappa Education provides these ‘thrive skills’.
Harappa Education caters to MNCs and other corporates to train their employees. It also trains individual employees and small teams and runs management development programmes for working professionals.
GitHub Co-pilot, generative AI development tool has transformed the coding function. The tools automate the routine work or assist programmers with complex tasks. GitHub Co-pilot enhances the productivity of the developer, and the time saved can be utilised in doing more satisfying creative work.
It was necessary for tech industry to communicate with machines in natural language, say English, rather than programming languages, say Python and Java. With GitHub Co-pilot, the world has come closest to that dream.
GitHub Co-pilot commenced a new world of software development. There is pairing of AI and programming. It auto-completes comments and code for the developer. GitHub Co-pilot, two years after its birth, is writing 46 per cent of code. It accelerates coding process.
Co-pilot chat answers the questions. One can receive additional context. There is immediate content-specific support. All this happens in Editor or IDE.
It is trusted by a large number of organisations.
GitHub is Microsoft-owned. It stores, hosts and shares code. Many Indian developers and organisations use GitHub.
Just like GitHub Co-pilot, Copilot chat is a developer first. It is everywhere in the development cycle. Besides it is an enterprise ready product. Microsoft is the first-to-market such a tool. It keeps on refining it in the light of the feedback received by its user base. It is an AI assistant that can efficiently handle the entire DevOps Workflow.
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