Devin

“The more I play with early versions of AI agents the more I think that this is going to be a big move forward in the near future. Giving AIs planning and delegation seems to help a lot. Both Devin & MAGIS agents perform 8x better than base GPT-4 in resolving real Github issues.  https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1774627104975450180 

“I gave Devin (an AI agent) my Netify key & asked it to build a website on how to rebuild civilization from scratch It built a site with react quizzes, downloadable preparedness documents & free images. Kind of impressive, actually. Try it, all just Devin:  https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1774667275439669503 

Other Agent News

“pretty crazy that GPT3.5 can outperform GPT4 through an agentic workflow reminds me of folks I’ve worked with in my career who outperformed people who were much smarter merely because they had a better process  https://twitter.com/thatguybg/status/1773367288529395827

Paper page – Octopus v2: On-device language model for super agent – https://huggingface.co/papers/2404.01744 

“You could improve AI performance through all sorts of clever techniques… or you could just have more LLM agents try to solve the problem and debate amongst themselves as to which is the right answer. It turns out that adding more agents seems to help all AIs with most problems.  https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1776697925642412322 

“SWE-Agent is an open-source software engineering agent with a 12.3% resolve rate on SWE-Bench! Check out SWE-agent in action at  https://twitter.com/_carlosejimenez/status/1775157915789463935 

Scientists create AI models that can talk to each other and pass on skills with limited human input | Live Science – https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/scientists-create-ai-models-that-can-talk-to-each-other-and-pass-on-skills-with-limited-human-input 

“I created a Claude 3 AI agent. It learns your writing style, can write anything mimicking it, and improves itself based on a similarity score:  https://twitter.com/dr_cintas/status/1775194888075649443  

“📣 Announcing Astra: Your email-first chief of staff Email is the most trusted tool on the internet, with 4.2 BILLION users worldwide Astra turns your inbox into a command center where you can deploy AI agents to work for you Link below to try it out!  https://twitter.com/Kdeshpande3/status/1775252001066012743 

Beyond RPA: How LLMs are ushering in a new era of intelligent process automation – Foundation Capital – https://foundationcapital.com/beyond-rpa-how-llms-are-ushering-in-a-new-era-of-intelligent-process-automation/

Agent API now available: bringing actions to your devices and applications — MultiOn AI – https://www.multion.ai/blog/agent-api-now-available-bringing-actions-to-your-devices-and-applications 
Microsoft 365’s Copilot gets a GPT-4 Turbo upgrade and improved image generation – The Verge – https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/3/24119784/microsoft-365-copilot-gpt-4-turbo-microsoft-designer

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AI News #27: Week Ending 04/05/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 48 Links

The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.

• Agents/Copilots
• Amazon
• Apple
• Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
• Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
• Autonomous Vehicles
• AI Audio
• Business and Enterprise AI
• Chips and Hardware
• Consumer Products
• Education
• Ethics/Legal Security
• Google
• Images/Photos
• International AI News
• Locally Run AI Models
• Mobile
• Meta
• Microsoft
• OpenAI
• Open Source
• Podcasts/YouTube
• Publishing and News
• Robots and Embodiment
• Science and Medicine
• Video
• Vision/Multimodality
• X/Twitter/Grok
• Tech and Development

Credits/Sources

Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.

• Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer 
• Ethan Mollick:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/ 
• Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/ 
• Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia   
• The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/ 
• Bilawal Sidhu:  https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/  
• TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai  
• Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang  
• Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats  
• Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan 
• All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI   
• Marshall Kirkpatrick:  https://aitimetoimpact.com/
• AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/

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