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Zuckerberg Announces Plans to Automate Facebook Coding Jobs With AI

Zuckerberg Announces Plans to Automate Facebook Coding Jobs With AI

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“An AI that can effectively be a sort of midlevel engineer.” Meta Narrative Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he intends to start automating coding jobs with AI — this year.  Zuckerberg announced these ambitions, which if realized would send shockwaves throughout Silicon Valley, on an episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, as spotted by Business Insider. “Probably in 2025, we at Meta, as well as the other companies that are basically working on this, are going to have an AI that can effectively be a sort of midlevel engineer that you have at your company that can write code,” Zuckerberg said in the interview. A midlevel engineer at Meta, per BI, earns a salary somewhere in the mid-six figures. For the People Though Zuckerberg doesn’t explicitly say he’ll replace his human grunts outright, putting two and two together as he explains how the AI technology will pan out — or looking at literally any company that has bragged about onboarding AI models — makes the implications for people’s jobs pretty clear. “In the beginning …

GPT Computer Assistant: Automate Your Computer with AI

GPT Computer Assistant: Automate Your Computer with AI

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Imagine a world where your computer doesn’t just follow your commands but anticipates your needs, streamlines your workflows, and takes the grind out of repetitive tasks. For many of us, juggling countless tabs, programs, and processes can feel overwhelming, leaving little room for creativity or focus. Whether you’re a developer buried in code, a researcher managing endless datasets, or simply someone trying to stay on top of daily digital chaos. The GPT Computer Assistant (GCA) is an advanced, open source AI framework designed to transform how you interact with your computer. Supporting Windows, macOS, and Linux platforms, GCA combines innovative technologies such as voice and text commands, screen interaction, and seamless integration with external tools to automate and simplify tasks. Whether you’re managing routine operations or tackling complex workflows, GCA enables you to perform these tasks effortlessly. Recent updates, including a modern graphical user interface (GUI) and enhanced compatibility with Anthropics’ Model Context Protocol (MCP), further solidify its position as a versatile and indispensable tool for contemporary computing needs. Simplifying Computer Automation TL;DR Key Takeaways …

Y Combinator alum Nowadays, founded by sisters, raises M to automate event planning

Y Combinator alum Nowadays, founded by sisters, raises $2M to automate event planning

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Not even the people inventing AI always know what it’s good for besides writing emails. But there are seed-stage companies, like Y Combinator grad and 2024 Disrupt Battlefield participant Nowadays, that are doing something mind-blowingly useful with AI. Nowadays uses LLM AI to automatically plan large, expensive events. Using its own database of 400,000 global venues and a proprietary model based on a combination of OpenAI, Anthropic, and its own coding, Nowadays emails venues, caterers, and the like to gather bids. It will even make phone calls to nudge a response to unanswered emails. It then organizes the information and presents it to the event planner, who can make decisions and sign contracts. The company was founded in 2023 by sisters Anna Sun, CEO, and Amy Yan, COO, and has since been used to book over $4 million worth of events including for tech companies like Google, Amazon, Notion, and Supabase, Sun tells TechCrunch. The idea came about after Sun graduated from MIT. Her older sister, Yan, was working at Google some years after graduating …

Can we automate science? Sam Rodriques is already doing it.

Can we automate science? Sam Rodriques is already doing it.

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Sign up for the Smarter Faster newsletter A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. Artificial intelligence is already doing some pretty amazing things — writing stories, solving problems, creating songs, generating art, and producing lifelike videos and images. But these are mere parlor tricks compared to a more profound potential ability: automating discovery itself. Many scientists are already excited about AI. In a Nature survey of 1,600 scientists published in September 2023, more than half of respondents expected AI tools to be “very important” or “essential,” citing faster data processing, expedited computation, and a reduction of research time and costs.  But some people are working on an even more ambitious goal: AI models that could be transformed into “full stack” AI scientists, capable of not just formulating hypotheses but also conducting the experiments, analyzing data, and sharing possibly game-changing findings. The nonprofit FutureHouse is working to realize this vision. Its stated purpose is “to build AI systems that can scale scientific research and accelerate …

Triomics raises M Series A to automate cancer clinical trials matching

Triomics raises $15M Series A to automate cancer clinical trials matching

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For cancer patients, medicines administered in clinical trials can help save or extend lives. But despite thousands of trials in the United States each year, only 3% to 5% of eligible patients enroll in investigations of new treatments. Triomics, a generative AI startup, claims it can significantly reduce the time it takes doctors to match patients with trials.   Doctors’ recommendations are often key to getting patients enrolled. However, busy oncologists and nurses often lack the time to learn about all the clinical trials that may be right for their patients.  I am not a doctor, so I don’t know about the day-to-day challenges of oncology medical staff. But I unfortunately know from personal experience how hard it is to find clinical trials for cancer patients. When my father was sick, I spent countless hours poring over clinicaltrials.gov, a website and database that lists thousands of ongoing trials. And just in March, I spent half a Saturday trying to find a clinical trial for a friend who has stage IV cancer. Her doctor only offered one …

Drata acquires Oak9 to automate compliance while programming

Drata acquires Oak9 to automate compliance while programming

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Discover how companies are responsibly integrating AI in production. This invite-only event in SF will explore the intersection of technology and business. Find out how you can attend here. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and various states of interruption three years ago, a startup called Drata was founded in San Diego, California, by the trio of former rocket scientist Adam Markowitz (previously of Aerojet Rocketdyne), recurrent chief technology officer Daniel Marashlian, and experienced business development exec Troy Markowitz, who now serve as Drata’s CEO, CTO, and COO, respectively. The three had previously worked together and two of them had co-founded digital portfolio startup Portfolium before it was acquired in 2019, and decided to solve a common pain point seen across their various previous endeavors: ensuring software written by engineers and developers is compliant with the myriad, ever-evolving and consistently expanding wave of regulations and standards enacted by world governments, laws, and internal policies. “Our vision here is to be able to democratize access to something that’s so important for companies to be able …

Awesome Shortcuts to Automate Your Apple AirPods

Awesome Shortcuts to Automate Your Apple AirPods

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In the ever-evolving world of technology, our interactions with everyday devices are constantly being reshaped. Apple’s AirPods, renowned for their wireless design and convenience, have become more than just a means for basic audio consumption. These innovative earbuds come equipped with a comprehensive suite of automation features and shortcuts that can transform your listening experience, making your AirPods not only smarter but also more attuned to your individual needs and preferences. Discover Key Automation Features Adaptive Noise Cancellation: Picture yourself stepping into a bustling cafe, and your AirPods automatically switch to noise-canceling mode, creating a serene oasis amidst the chaos. This intelligent feature adapts to your location, ensuring an optimal listening environment wherever your day takes you. Smart Volume Control: Seamlessly transition from a soft-spoken podcast to your favorite high-energy track without manually adjusting the volume. Your AirPods can automatically fine-tune the sound level to suit different audio types, delivering the perfect volume for every piece of content you enjoy. Seamless Audio Playback: Simply put on your AirPods and be instantly immersed in your preferred …

How to use ChatGPT to automate your daily life

How to use ChatGPT to automate your daily life

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ChatGPT offers various methods to enhance productivity and save time across different professions and daily tasks. Here are the key ways ChatGPT can be utilized to streamline activities and increase efficiency: Key Takeaways Task Automation: ChatGPT can automate repetitive tasks such as converting rough notes into organized formats, which saves significant time. Routine and Schedule Creation: It can generate daily schedules or routines based on user inputs, optimizing time management without the user needing to plan every detail manually. Content Generation: ChatGPT assists in creating content for various platforms, which is particularly useful for social media managers and content creators. It can generate post ideas, complete with visual and textual content suggestions. Ideation and Brainstorming: The tool is useful for brainstorming, offering ideas and inspiration for projects, which can help overcome creative blocks. Summarizing Information: ChatGPT can quickly summarize extensive documents, books, or articles, highlighting key points and essential information, which aids in faster comprehension. Data Analysis: It can analyze and interpret complex data sets, providing visual representations like graphs and charts to simplify the …

Salesforce strengthens Mulesoft with AI tools to extract data, automate workflows

Salesforce strengthens Mulesoft with AI tools to extract data, automate workflows

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Join us in Atlanta on April 10th and explore the landscape of security workforce. We will explore the vision, benefits, and use cases of AI for security teams. Request an invite here. Mere days after launching Einstein Copilot for Tableau, Salesforce is buffing up another one of its core products. The Marc Benioff-led CRM today announced it is bolstering Mulesoft’s automation, integration and API management solutions with new AI tools. The offerings, which are set to become generally available over the coming months, include an Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) tool to extract and organize data from diverse documents and the integration of the Einstein assistant across the board to help users drive their workflows with natural language prompts. Salesforce says that the new capabilities are expected to simplify work for developers and business teams, making them productive and accelerating the time to value.  Intelligent Document Processing for business teams Since acquiring Mulesoft, Salesforce has made significant improvements to the platform, focusing on both IT and business teams. For IT, there’s the Anypoint integration and API …

The easiest way to automate window blinds can be yours for

The easiest way to automate window blinds can be yours for $49

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A look at the SwitchBot Blind Tilt after installation. Maria Diaz/ZDNET SwitchBot has found its niche in retrofitting existing home appliances and products, such as door locks, to make them smart. Now, the company is making a blind tilt mechanism with an included solar panel that automates window blinds for you.  This smart SwitchBot Blind Tilt is a small device that attaches to the vertical twisting wand on horizontal blinds and twists it to tilt open or close them, all controlled by you from your mobile device or via a voice command to Alexa or Google Home.  Your phone communicates with the SwitchBot Blind Tilt via Bluetooth, but it can also connect to Wi-Fi if you add a SwitchBot Hub.  The Blind Tilt comes with its solar panel, which makes it an easy, plug-and-play option. You never have to worry about climbing up on a chair to charge it or finding a charging cable that was long enough; I found it a simple, hassle-free solution to my blind woes. Why would you need a smart blind …