AI Reading for Monday June 17
Bill Gates says we will still need software engineers. - NDTV.com
Even more than Devin full software development lifecycle AI, low-code dev by business analysts can actually get unlocked or solved with AI.
If you can describe a process in English, and an AI can make a flowchart with nodes, and then guide you through writing a little Python at each node, testing/debugging, put up a simple UI, normies could start to do a ton of enterprise dev.
I'm talking about Zapier, Workato, Retool, Superblocks. Budibase, Make.com, Boomi, Jitterbit, Power Apps, UiPath.
I looked at that space and felt, despite a ton of activity and innovation in this space, for anythin beyond small apps, you still need someone who knows what they are doing and you can do it faster / better in Python.
But if you take capabilities from these platforms, add an AI coder assistant, database engineer, debugger for hairy bits, and AI to watch it run visually, it starts to come together.
AI in finance is like ‘moving from typewriters to word processors.
AI for drug discovery. - NY Times
IMF says carbon tax, excess profits tax and improved safety nets are proper policy responses to AI disruptions. - the Guardian
DeepMind's pivot from research to product dev. - Bloomberg
AI might suck the battery life out of your next phone. - The Information
Got handed a big legacy codebase? Just use AI to figure out how it works! - X (formerly Twitter)
AI cameras starting to get broadly rolled out. - WIRED
Ray Kurzweil on the state of AI. - BostonGlobe.com
McDonalds ends AI order-taking trial. - Restaurant Business
Startup makes videos of 3D models with AI. - VentureBeat
Musk showered Hinton with praise after Hinton talked about making up a meeting to avoid listening to an Elon rant. - X (formerly Twitter)
AI can read your cat's face and detect pain, says dev of popular Japanese app.
AI is going to do a lot of chemistry and chemical engineering. - Chemical & Engineering News
Punchline: AI writes bad jokes. - MIT Technology Review
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