Can anyone code if they are pair programming with AI? Are these tools accurate and helpful? (Jump to 18 mins in). Join ML & Python Engineer Tom Wright, AI Startup Founder Rafie Faruq and Host Alex Denne for a discussion covering the AI news from the week, AI software development assistants and the results of the largest Turing Test ever.

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News links

1. TIME: The End of Humanity 😱 🤨 - https://time.com/6283609/artificial-intelligence-race-existential-threat


2. The Times: Matt Clifford “AI systems ‘could kill many humans’ within two years” - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-risks-matt-clifford-talktv-interview-2023-s7npn5wcz


3. Bloomberg: 3,900 job cuts in May because of “AI” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-01/job-cuts-from-ai-are-just-beginning-the-latest-challenger-report-suggests


4. Report: https://omscgcinc.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/The-Challenger-Report-May23.pdf


5. JPMorgan advertised 4000 AI related jobs in the last 3 months alone - https://www.businessinsider.com/jpmorgan-leading-wall-street-shift-advertised-3600-ai-jobs-2023-6


6. Japan Government: Copyright does not apply to AI training - https://technomancers.ai/japan-goes-all-in-copyright-doesnt-apply-to-ai-training

Theme discussion and links (from the 18min mark)

1. AI Pair Programming with Github Copilot https://github.com/features/copilot


2. Deepmind discover 70% faster short-sorts and 1.7% faster for lists of 250k+ https://www.deepmind.com/blog/alphadev-discovers-faster-sorting-algorithms -

Crazy things this week

1. Largest Turing Test to date results are out - https://www.ai21.com/blog/human-or-not-results only 68% of people guessed correctly when asked to determine whether they talked to a fellow human or an AI bot


2. Via the Human or not game - https://www.humanornot.ai/


3. Nvidia “Neuralangelo” reconstructs 3d scenes from a smartphone video recording - https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2023/06/01/neuralangelo-ai-research-3d-reconstruction


4. Youtube: AI Explained - ChatGPT Code Interpreter Data Analysis and Visualisation use cases. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8GUH0_htRM

Topics touched on

Unit testing, Code comments, SQL, Python, Regex, User stories, D3.js, Hans Rosling, Copilot, Codex, GPT 3.5 Turbo, Code generation, Vector diagrams, ChatGPT Plugins, Textual representation, Product management, Generative AI, Behaviour Scenarios, Tests, Acceptance Criteria, Fine tuning, IDEs, Documentation, Utility functions, Task decomposition, VSCode, API, Debugging, coding, software development, the last mile, mathematical proofs, Wolfram Alpha, AI Pair programming

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