"the crew studied space-caused mental and physical changes in astronauts, blood flow from the brain to the heart" and their eyes. Apparently a long interval of weightlessness screws you up royally and we are now trying to find out exactly how much.
AI has found and fixed quite a few bugs for me, but what I use is integrated with the IDE and can see the entire code context. Also it will write debug logging statements etc to zero in on problems and evaluate the results. It won't necessarily do everything for you but it will help.
But in this case it appears that their test case was looking for vulnerabilities "in various popular open source software" which is a whole different thing and presumably harder.
If you read much science fiction you will have seen a lot of stories about interstellar flight like this. And there are all kinds of solutions, many of which involve hibernation or cold storage of the crew while some kind of AI handles the navigation and ship systems. Usually it goes haywire in order to generate drama.
Sometimes there's a rotating set of human skeleton crew that gets awoken to make sure things are going okay. In the novels there will be all kinds of tension associated with that, or the ship gets damaged somehow, or aliens catch up to it and wreak some havoc. In other iterations the crew consists of frozen embryos that get birthed at some point, raised and educated by the AI, and reach adulthood in time to witness the orbiting dead rocks and gas giants they came so far to see.
The most realistic scenario is a small completely robotic craft without all that life support cargo similar to what we are already doing.
https://fortune.com/asia/2025/...
Tan helped found SMIC "in 2000 as an early attempt to bring advanced chip-making to China" and he "was a director on SMIC’s board until 2018". Simultaneously he was the CEO of California-based Cadence Design Systems, so there's a long history of potential technology flows to China there.
"In late July of this year, the Department of Justice announced a plea deal that cost Cadence more than $100 million in fines. Employees at Cadence’s China unit allegedly hid the name of a customer—the National University of Defense Technology—from internal compliance in order to keep supplying it. That organization had been put on the Department of Commerce’s blacklist in 2015."
I took a vacation in the Caribbean a couple of months ago, visited three islands and did a fair amount of snorkeling. The reefs there were fairly healthy 10 years ago and now they are 90% dead as a doornail. I saw acres of bleached-out coral heads that used to be thriving habitat for large vivid fish communities, now dead, crumbling, and the fish are gone.
They've definitely got revenue as the article stated. "OpenAI's annual recurring revenue is now at $13 billion, up from $10 billion in June, with the company on track to surpass $20 billion by year-end" and "five million paying business users". Nothing to sneeze at and the growth rate is 4x. People will invest in that.
"provides the government with purchasing flexibility and removes contract-related fees and procurement timelines"
All that inconvenient 'contract' stuff got brushed out of the way, now Palantir gets a direct pipeline to the $10 billion.
$145,000 for a senior engineer living in Seattle is not great pay.
"Has never happened yet.", so what? We haven't seen an ability for the AI to improve its own code until recently, prior to that it was just speculation. I don't know if this ever results in AGI but I expect very significant improvements in the existing systems.
I'm thinking you don't work as a coder in a scrum shop, where you get your daily work assignments at the morning standup and try to move your Jira tickets to the right. In that situation coding speed matters quite a bit.
You get paid a little more than the people you manage, but usually not more than 15-20%. You spend most of your time in meetings or on the phone. You have to hear about every employee's personal problems that make it so they can't come in for work this week. Everyone hates you just because you're a manager, either secretly or overtly, but they feel they have to suck up to you which they also hate. You will be pressured by senior management to do things that are impossible, and resisted by your subordinates who can't do the impossible. And then you routinely have to lay people off or fire them, even the good workers you put so much effort into hiring and training. As an agent of the company you will frequently be required to enforce policies you don't agree with.
So gosh, what's not to feel enthusiastic and involved about?
>> significantly lower than wind
What a load of horseshit. Coal is massively polluting, and not just the CO2. You can see a list of pollutants and other environmental damage here;
https://www.eia.gov/energyexpl...
Yes the construction of the wind turbines is also polluting but that is offset by the clean electricity generation in a couple of months of operation. The blades and all other components are recyclable.
Looks to me like they merely performed an experiment. Let us know when someone detects a pilot wave.
There's zero doubt in my mind that Meta engineers are using AI coding assistance to help them build their products, but Zuck implies that they are taking it farther. At some point the AI will not only be able to introspect its own code but be able to come up with improvements on its own and implement them. Once that happens we may see exponential advances as the self-improvements build on each other. I think that's where he gets this idea that AGI is achievable.
My main concern is "smart glasses as the primary computing device, understanding context through what users see and hear throughout their day". Facebook already collects far more personal info than I'm comfortable with. If they obtain the entire context of your ongoing life experiences it is much more alarming.
I had an idea about how to improve a microservice yesterday while eating lunch. I described it to my AI coding assistant (a chat panel in the IDE), it understood right away. I broke the implementation task out into incremental steps that are about the right size for an AI to accomplish one by one. In a little more than an hour I had the complete solution along with a test utility to verify the functionality and a comprehensive readme that documents the entire service plus the changes. It would have taken me at least 2 days of tedious careful slogging to write that code.
This is routine practice in the software development business these days. You can get an awful lot of work done very fast with AI help. Pichai knows it, and Google developers had better know it and get on board. Will it mean people will be laid off? Maybe not. Maybe the existing workers will just be a lot more productive.
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