ash amrite

VP Solutions @Dentsu. All views my own.

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

Tea time. I’ve just cooked my prawns and have settled down on my deck in the evening sun to eat it. A most pleasant way to spend a Thursday evening.

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

Excited to announce SIMA, a general AI agent for games & 3D virtual settings. It marks the first time an agent has demonstrated it can follow natural-language instructions to carry out a wide range of tasks across a large array of game worlds, similar to how a human would play.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

# automating software engineering

In my mind, automating software engineering will look similar to automating driving. E.g. in self-driving the progression of increasing autonomy and higher abstraction looks something like:

1. first the human performs all driving actions manually
2. then the AI helps keep the lane
3. then it slows for the car ahead
4. then it also does lane changes and takes forks
5. then it also stops at signs/lights and takes turns
6. eventually you take a feature complete solution and grind on the quality until you achieve full self-driving.

There is a progression of the AI doing more and the human doing less, but still providing oversight. In Software engineering, the progression is shaping up similar:

1. first the human writes the code manually
2. then GitHub Copilot autocompletes a few lines
3. then ChatGPT writes chunks of code
4. then you move to larger and larger code diffs (e.g. Cursor copilot++ style, nice demo here https://t.co/u8ueY0mGxZ)
5....
Devin is an impressive demo of what perhaps follows next: coordinating a number of tools that a developer needs to string together to write code: a Terminal, a Browser, a Code editor, etc., and human oversight that moves to increasingly higher level of abstraction.

There is a lot of work not just on the AI part but also the UI/UX part. How does a human provide oversight? What are they looking at? How do they nudge the AI down a different path? How do they debug what went wrong? It is very likely that we will have to change up the code editor, substantially.

In any case, software engineering is on track to change substantially. And it will look a lot more like supervising the automation, while pitching in high-level commands, ideas or progression strategies, in English.

Good luck to the team!

[Bloomberg @business]

EXCLUSIVE: Abu Dhabi's new investment firm focusing on AI and semiconductors could surpass $100 billion in assets under management https://t.co/zyPTzpNHVs

[WIRED @WIRED]

When everyone's hooking their brains up to computers, we'll need surgeons to install the hardware. https://t.co/20xZgkMEiT

[GM Authority @GMauthority]

A new report from research firm Gartner predicts that EV production will be less expensive than equivalent ICE-based products by 2027.
https://t.co/7q92dmiQcE

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Tesla: The finest in apocalyptic technology

[The New York Times @nytimes]

For decades, China's one-child policy was woven into the fabric of everyday life.

Now, faced with a shrinking and aging population, the government is using many of the same propaganda channels to send the opposite message: Have more babies.
https://t.co/mkZ0xF4Dnx

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Spotify’s new ‘Song Psychic’ is like a Magic 8-Ball that answers your questions with music https://t.co/gDuwWn9POd

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 India's GDP growth is a massive 8.4% 🔥 in Q3, FY24. (Oct-Dec, 2023)

Exceeded all expectations which are projected at 6.6%

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

The Taj Mahal is wonderful, but it isn't unique.

So here's an introduction to Mughal Architecture...

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Nvidia, $NVDA, market cap has surpassed the size of Canada's economy, per Bloomberg.

[ash amrite @Ash_75]

@thetrainline Hi, no i didnt. I had to get a taxi as there were no further trains. How do i get a refund ?

[ash amrite @Ash_75]

@thetrainline Hi my train from Bristol Temple Meads to Yatton (2058) was cancelled today. How can i get it refunded please? Your website is unclear.

[Mira Murati @miramurati]

We’re sharing Sora, text-to-video model that creates min long insanely magical scenes

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Bret Taylor’s new company aims to connect conversational AI to enterprise workflows https://t.co/x9GaLN7NgH

[Javi Lopez ⛩️ @javilopen]

🔥 Boximator: TikTok enters the AI game! 🔥

Image-to-video by drawing constraints, motion paths and a prompt.

This the most impressive thing I've seen in months. We are facing a paradigm shift, and those who fail to see it will be swept away by the tsunami.

LINK + INFO 🧵👇

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

This is the way.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

BREAKING: Stellantis has announced they will adopt Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (J3400). This means all major automakers that sell in the US have now officially announced NACS adoption.

Stellantis customers will be able to access 15,000+ Superchargers in NA in 2025.

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

Fat, fluffy pancakes soaked in maple syrup?

No thank you! I’m British. I will have thin pancakes, please. Preferably ripped and crumpled after being thrown about a bit, possibly by a child. And I will have some horrible sour lemon on those, please… artificial lemon, ideally, from a plastic bottle shaped like a real lemon. I want to enjoy these pancakes, but not enough to want them again for a whole year.

Much appreciated.