In addition to reviewing the positives & negatives of the three frontier models, this post has some of my more provocative takes for people using AI inside organizations, including why RAG may not be the future, and why agents like Devin the Coder might be
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Local Bot Quest for Automated Writing Tasks
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tbf writing is my least favorite part of this job but my year-long quest to build a local bot (explicitly not an API) that can successfully do this part of my job for me has thus far not been successful
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Web Scraping Fundamentals: Learn to Scrape Any Website
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Are you new to web scraping? I will be live with Lukas, Head of Delivery Engineering at Apify, on March 27th, 10 AM EST, talking about: – 0 to 1 about web scraping – How to scrape any website in a few clicks using @apify Register now:
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AI transforms public spaces transit retail education employment
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Most people spend lots of time in public transit, on city sidewalks, in retail stores, places of education, employment and administration
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Bernie Sanders Proposes Four-Day Work Week Amid AI Automation
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Bernie Sanders proposed a bill establishing a four-day work week in the U.S. with no loss of pay, citing productivity gains from AI and automation.
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Devin AI Agent Autonomously Solves Coding Issues via Slack
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Cognition’s Devin showed off its autonomous AI agent skills in a new viral X post. The model was able to open a support ticket and exchange Slack messages to solve a coding issue on its own. Wild!
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Aviation Safety Concerns Beyond Political Ideology
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Not wanting to die in a plane crash is not the same as communism.
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Software Engineering Automation: A 1970s Promise Still Unfulfilled
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I’ve been around long enough to remember when we were 3 to 5 years away from automating software engineering in the 1970’s. E.g., Waters & Rich.
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TIME’s Best Innovations 2023: Mars oxygen, autonomous tractors, asteroid samples
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Highlights from TIME's "Best Innovations 2023": 1. MOXIE makes O2 on Mars.
2. Monarch's electric, driverless tractor.
3. OSIRIS-REx's asteroid sample return. Check out their stories http://
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Coding Skills No Longer Shield Against Automation
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The days when "learning to code" offered protection from automation are coming to a close. https://t.co/n7p6oyuVn4
— Martin Ford (@MFordFuture) 17 mars 2024The days when "learning to code" offered protection from automation are coming to a close.