Gemini, Google’s AI-powered chatbot, can now connect to GitHub – for users who subscribe to the $20/month Gemini Advanced plan.
Starting Wednesday, Gemini Advanced customers can directly add a public or private codebase on GitHub to Gemini so that the chatbot can generate and explain code, debug existing code, and more. Users can connect GitHub to Gemini by clicking the “+” button in the tooltip bar, selecting “import code”, and pasting the GitHub URL.
A few caveats: Artificial intelligence models, including Google’s, are still struggling to produce quality software. Code-generating AI tends to create security vulnerabilities and bugs due to weaknesses in areas such as the ability to understand programming logic. One recent evaluation of Devin, a popular AI coding tool, found that it was only able to pass three out of 20 programming tests.
The new GitHub integration comes just days after OpenAI launched a GitHub connector for ChatGPT, a tool that searches the web and other sources to produce thorough research reports on a particular topic. AI companies, including Google and OpenAI, are rapidly introducing new features in an effort to make their products stand out in an increasingly crowded market.
For example, on Tuesday, OpenAI added SharePoint and Microsoft OneDrive connectors to its ChatGPT deep learning.
