India to turn largest hub of software developers by 2027: Thomas Dohmke, CEO, GitHub
artificial intelligence (AI), GitHub chief executive Thomas Dohmke said. Dohmke told the ET World Leaders Forum that tens of millions of developers in India are creating the digital public infrastructure of the future, fueling economic growth.
GitHub is a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code. The company was acquired by Microsoft in 2018.
«Developers drive GDP growth and technological progress to the tune of trillions of US dollars. And the opportunity goes further because software developers are adopting AI faster than any other sector of the global workforce,» Dohmke said.
The executive has been at the forefront of GitHub's integration of OpenAI's GPT models, creating the world's first AI developer tool that helps autocomplete software coding, GitHub Copilot.
«Developers are already 55% faster using Copilot, an acceleration not seen since the industrial age,» Dohmke said.
For India, AI is the opening chapter of a new book of opportunity, he said. «We are living in an era where every company can and must become an AI company… each company who embraces this and become early adapters will exist on a whole other spectrum of productivity entirely.»
Dohmke said companies must first identify gaps in productivity, and then fill them using AI. «Identify the productivity gaps in your company at large, because AI in search of a problem is pointless. AI for the sake of AI's pointless, AI is a solution to the problem, that is the whole point.»
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