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Generative AI: autocomplete for everything
- For decades now, software tools have promised to make working life easier. But on one critical dimension — their ability to improve our thinking — they don’t seem to be making much progress at all.
Meanwhile, the arrival of generative artificial intelligence could make the tools we use more powerful than ever — or they could turn out to be just ano... See morefrom Why note-taking apps don't make us smarter by Casey Newton
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- Generative AI can automate simple tasks
By automating simpler, tedious tasks (generating boilerplate code, fixing linter errors, generating unit tests, etc.), generative AI can help engineers focus on more complex tasks.
Generative AI can improve quality & reliability
Since generative AI models are trained on large codebases, they have the poten... See morefrom The Transformative Power of Generative AI in Software Development: Lessons from Uber's Tech-Wide Hackathon by Adam Huda
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Generative AI combines the encoding of vast corpuses of text and images—which act as training data—and a series of machine learning algorithms to turn text prompts into incredibly creative, intelligent, and useful visual and text responses.
from 131: How to Be Human in the Age of Generative AI by Jason Shen