Thanks to the new license agreement with Stack Overflow, ChatGPT gains extensive programming knowledge.

The programming forum Stack Overflow today announced a licensing partnership with OpenAI. This allows the AI ​​company to access messages from Stack Overflow to more accurately answer coding questions within ChatGPT. Stack Overflow, in turn, can use OpenAI’s insights to advance the development of OverflowAI. The first new integrations and features between Stack Overflow and OpenAI will be available in the first half of 2024.

ChatGPT is getting smarter

The partnership with Stack Overflow will allow OpenAI to gain more programming skills to power its chatbot ChatGPT. When users ask coding questions that have already been answered in the Stack Exchange forum, the AI ​​chatbot can retrieve this information from the forum using OverflowAPI access. The AI ​​company can use it to train its large language models, but emphasizes that it allows attribution to the Stack Overflow community within the ChatGPT answers.

“Through this industry-leading partnership with OpenAI, we aim to redefine the developer experience and drive efficiency and collaboration through the power of community, best-in-class data and AI experiences,” said Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO of Stack Overflow.

Stack Overflow and AI

On the other hand, Stack Overflow will use OpenAI models in the development of OverflowAI. Additionally, they will work together to leverage insights from internal testing and maximize the performance of OpenAI models. The partnership will help Stack Overflow further advance its mission of developing technology based on collective knowledge.

“Learning from as many languages, cultures, topics and industries as possible ensures that our models can serve everyone. The developer community is extremely important to both of us. Our close collaboration with Stack Overflow will help us improve the user and developer experience on both our platforms,” said Brad Lightcap, COO at OpenAI. This is not the first licensing collaboration that OpenAI has entered into, the AI ​​company recently entered into an article usage agreement with the Financial Times.