Pioneering AI: The First Artificial Intelligence Software Engineer

Hey folks,

Picture this: You've dedicated countless hours and years to mastering computer science, only to discover that a significant part of your role could be automated by AI. This isn't a far-off scenario. A trailblazing startup, Cognition AI, asserts they've created the first-ever "AI engineer." Experts are hailing this as one of the most monumental strides in AI this year.

WHAT'S COOKING

• Unveiling the First AI Software Engineer by Cognition AI

• Top 5 Techniques to Analyze and Visualize Data with ChatGPT

• Graph: The Influence of Generative AI on Global Productivity

• 5 Cutting-Edge AI Tools to Elevate Your Efficiency

• AI-Crafted Images: The Transperent Turtle Shell

NEWS

Current Happenings in AI & Tech

AI Revolution: China is leveraging AI to manage the world's most extensive high-speed rail network. The technology reportedly alerts maintenance crews about track irregularities with an impressive 95% accuracy.

Intelligent Investments: Abu Dhabi is reportedly on the verge of establishing an AI investment firm that could manage over $100Bn in assets in the coming years.

Corporate Espionage: Meta has leveled accusations against a former vice president, alleging the theft of proprietary AI intelligence, including details about employees who subsequently joined the VP's new startup.

GPT-4 Free to Use: Copilot's GPT-4 Turbo model is now free to use - no payment needed. Pro users can still choose the older model. GPT-4 Turbo activates in Creative or Precise mode. Toggle these on to access new features.

Developer Freedom: In a recent move to placate EU regulators, Apple has announced it will allow app developers to distribute their products directly from their websites.

AI INNOVATIONS

Cognition AI Unveils the First AI Software Engineer, Stuns the Tech World

A clandestine group of elite coders has been diligently working on a groundbreaking project that many believe could revolutionize the field of software engineering. Cognition AI, a startup backed by Peter Thiel, has introduced an AI-driven software engineering platform capable of undertaking entire coding projects from the ground up.

What's in its arsenal? Devin, the platform developed by Cognition, can:

• Execute a full software project independently (a leap from most AI coding assistants that merely suggest code)

• Foresee coding issues before they arise and modify its decision-making process accordingly

• Construct new websites and AI applications from the ground up

• Develop custom Chrome extensions and handle certain coding tasks on Upwork

• Resolve nearly 14% of GitHub issues identified in real-world open-source projects without human intervention (a significant improvement over the typical 2% resolution rate of most models)

Does it meet the expectations? A Bloomberg journalist put Devin to the test this week and reported watching it construct a custom website in less than 10 minutes. The CEO of fintech firm Ramp hailed Devin as the "most remarkable demo I've witnessed in the past decade." The CEO of AI giant Perplexity AI also expressed admiration for the system's ability to "evaluate results, replan, and iterate until successful."

Is the future of software engineering jobs at risk? "If software engineering could be fully automated (my job), I think that would be fantastic, as it would allow me to focus on more high-impact tasks," says Francois Chollet, a globally recognized AI engineer.

However, Chollet remains skeptical: "Software engineering isn't just about copy/pasting code. It's about developing and manipulating mental models of problems and their solutions." While there has been ongoing speculation about AI agents replacing jobs, Devin might turn out to be a valuable tool rather than a replacement for software engineers and developers. Only time will tell.

AI IN ACTION

5 Techniques to Leverage ChatGPT for Data Analysis and Visualization

ChatGPT is not only proficient at generating text and images, but it's also remarkably adept at processing numbers and transforming them into insightful charts and visualizations.

Here are 5 simple ways you can begin utilizing ChatGPT for data analysis today:

1. Cleanse, Structure, and Format Your Data:

Formatting data in a spreadsheet can sometimes take hours before you can actually start analyzing and manipulating the data. Fortunately, you can upload your spreadsheet to ChatGPT and let it handle the data formatting for you.

Example Prompt: Eliminate duplicates and null values from this spreadsheet

You can also request ChatGPT to: convert data types and formats, rename columns, find and replace values.

2. Discover Patterns and Extract Insights:

ChatGPT is quite adept at running an analysis on your dataset to uncover insights, anomalies, and trends.

Example Prompt: Examine this data and generate a summary of key trends, patterns, and anomalies.

3. Manipulate the Data:

Example Prompt: Filter the data to include only rows where the age exceeds 25, then sort by salary.

4. Perform Advanced Analyses: 

Like Location Analysis, Time Series Analysis, and More

Example Prompt: Analyze the time series data for store visits across all cities and identify seasonal trends in visitor traffic.

5. Visualize the Data

Example Prompt: Construct a bar chart from the data in this spreadsheet [upload spreadsheet]

You can also create: Box plots, area charts, heat maps, pie charts, correlation charts, radar charts, and more.

Note: The data analysis feature is exclusively available to paid ChatGPT subscribers. Also, be careful not to upload any sensitive or confidential information. We recommend anonymizing your data before uploading it by taking steps such as removing email addresses and other personal information.

GRAPH

The Influence of Generative AI on Global Productivity

Employees in India, Indonesia, and the UAE are significantly more inclined to incorporate generative AI into their work compared to their counterparts in Western countries, as per a recent survey conducted by YouGov.

A substantial two-thirds of the workforce in India reported that generative AI has enhanced their productivity at work. In contrast, a mere 17% of American employees echoed the same sentiment. Interestingly, Americans were the most likely among the surveyed nationalities to state that AI had adversely affected their productivity, with 12% indicating that AI had a negative impact.

AI CRAFTED IMAGES

The Transperent Turtle Shell

Midjourney Prompt:

For Image 1 & 2: 

a transparent-shelled land turtle carries a mini city --ar 3:2 --style raw --stylize 0 

For Image 3:

a transparent-shelled land turtle carries a mini village --ar 3:2 --style raw --stylize 0 

For Image 4:

a transparent-shelled sea turtle carries a mini village and walks in the sand --ar 3:2 --style raw --stylize 0