a suburban office hs been transformed into a scene from the movie The Matrix. –ar 5:3 –v 6.0 –style raw

Devin

“You should ignore the comments of everyone here who hasn’t personally used Devin Anyone who follows my alt knows that I’ve been hammering the shit out of it since @ScottWu46 gave me unrestricted access With Devin we have: – shipped Swift code to Apple App Store – written” / X – https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1776771329066500589 

Other Agent News

“it’s over, and this is current generation LLMs (gpt-4) > our approach resolved 67 GitHub issues in less than ten minutes each, whereas developers spent more than 2.77 days on average  https://twitter.com/abacaj/status/1777574208337215678 

“Introducing AutoCodeRover Presenting our autonomous software engineer from Singapore ! Takes in a Github issue (bug fixing or feature addition), resolves in few minutes, with minimal LLM cost ~$0.5 ! Please RT 🧑‍💻  https://twitter.com/AbhikRoychoudh1/status/1777494000611852515 

“Personal AI Integrations🚀 Connect your Personal AI to your Gmail to add emails to your memory stack Your AI can be trained on any or all of your emails to understand more about you and your needs Check out this tutorial below👇  https://twitter.com/PersonalAI_/status/1778078095016157464 

“Researchers from Princeton NLP developed SWE-agent, an open-source project that turns GPT-4 into an AI software engineering The agent achieved accuracy similar to Devin and resolved 12.29% of issues autonomously.  https://twitter.com/adcock_brett/status/1777004183847145973 

Google launches Code Assist, its latest challenger to GitHub’s Copilot | TechCrunch – https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/09/google-launches-code-assist-its-latest-challenger-to-githubs-copilot/ 

“Today we’re introducing a new way for model developers and bot creators to generate revenue on @poe_platform: price per message! Creators can now set a per-message price for their bots and generate revenue every time a user messages them. Thread 👇  https://twitter.com/adamdangelo/status/1777395821811573188 

“A new study from Cornell researchers just found that increasing the number of AI agents collaborating on a problem can significantly improve performance. Notably: A 13B parameter Llama model beat a 70B version on some tasks by scaling the number of agents up.  https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1777513931256303941 

“The moat of software AI agents is not the thin wrapper layer (Devin, SWE-Agent), but the underlying LLM. Instead of benchmarking the wrapper, I think SWE-Bench is excellent for evaluating coding LLMs instead: Hold the agent layer fixed and vary only the LLM backend. Provide all  https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1778105360685080644 

“I’m proud to announce the beta release of Figura chat – an uncensored, privacy first AI companion platform running at lightning fast speeds. For more information on how to participate for free, join our discord using the link below  https://twitter.com/cloud11665/status/1779143537935929854

“@steph_palazzolo @erinkwoo @AndrewYNg Humane’s $699 AI Pin wearable device is now officially available for purchase, marking one of the first personal AI devices. Initial reviews have not been great, with low-light conditions making projections hard to see and long wait times on queries.  https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1778602157865832939 

“Building a Finance Agent 📈 If you’re looking for a comprehensive toolkit for an LLM to perform financial analysis for any publicly traded company, then check out Hanane Dupouy’s tutorial – it covers all the functions you need to perform stock analysis (thanks to @YahooFinance +  https://twitter.com/llama_index/status/1777076087853392027 

“Purposeful pretraining and interface design may be the keys to unlocking reliable LM-based agents.” / X – https://twitter.com/sarahcat21/status/1776644684997365817 

“Claude Function Calling Agent 📞🤖 @AnthropicAI released tool use support in its messages API, which unlocks a huge number of agentic use cases with Haiku/Sonnet/Opus. We’re excited to release our day 0 Claude Function Calling Agent, powered by @llama_index abstractions, that  https://twitter.com/llama_index/status/1776051869850476840 

Humane AI Hands-On: My Life So Far With a Wearable AI Pin – CNET – https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/humane-ai-hands-on-my-life-so-far-with-a-wearable-ai-pin/ 

“I see a lot of debate on this site, so two things about the current state of AI agents in the real world 1) Agents remain limited by GPT-4 brains, it is early 2) Both academic testing 👇 & my own subjective experience ( https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1779136973690589475

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AI News #28: Week Ending 04/12/2024 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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