# automating software engineering

In my mind, automating software engineering will look similar to automating driving. E.g. in self-driving the progression of increasing autonomy and higher abstraction looks something like:

1. first the human performs all driving actions

Mayday.

The sudden pollution of science with LLM-generated content, known to yield plausible-sounding but sometimes difficult to detect errors (“hallucinations”) is serious, and its impact will be lasting.

Please share this short essay (link below) with scientists and with

ok, I've now read the NYT response this week to attempts by OpenAI to dismiss NYT's landmark lawsuit against the high-flying AI company.
Put simply, NYT makes it brutally clear on page one how you can tell the difference between the two companies.
Oomph. /1

Thank you to everyone who attended today's SXSW session on ethics in an #AI world with Sony AI's Michael Spranger and IEEE Spectrum's Eliza Strickland. #SXSW2024

Midjourney finally released their consistent character features!

You can now generate images w/ consistent faces, hair styles, & even clothing across styles & scenes

This has been the top requested feature from the community for a while now

Some examples & how it works:

If you're at #SXSW2024 today, check out this fireside chat about AI ethics in computer vision. IEEE Spectrum senior editor Eliza Strickland will be talking with Sony AI's Michael Spranger at 11:30. schedule.sxsw.com/2024/events/PP…

Sociologist Benjamin Shestakofsky spent 19 months embedded in a Silicon Valley startup that went on to be valued at over $1 billion. Here's what he saw. The company's name has been changed to protect privacy, but you're welcome to guess! #startups #venturecapital spectrum.ieee.org/unicorn-startu…

The EU AI Act passes in the European Parliament! 523 voted for, 46 against, 49 abstained. I’m grateful for being in Strasbourg today, witnessing one of the last hurdles before the first-ever comprehensive AI regulation, the AI Act, becomes an actual law in the EU.

New nonpartisan AI nonprofit TrueMedia.Org, led by Oren @Etzioni and backed by Uber co-founder Garrett Camp (@gc), is making a political deepfake detector geekwire.com/2024/new-ai-no… via @GeekWire

Are you at #SXSW2024 ? On Weds at 11:30 come to a fireside chat about AI ethics with Sony AI's Michael Spranger (Sony AI President) IEEE Spectrum's senior editor Eliza Strickland. schedule.sxsw.com/2024/events/PP…

When we get to AGI, it will have come slowly, not overnight.

A NeurIPS Outstanding Paper award recipient, Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage? (by Rylan Schaeffer, Brando Miranda, Sanmi Koyejo) studies emergent properties of LLMs, and concludes:
'...

Two years ago today I argued that Deep Learning was Hitting a Wall.

How did I do?

Point by point evaluation at link below

What a pleasure to be in such wonderful company in
TechCrunch's feature on women in AI.

'The more I have worked in AI, the more I have found myself grappling with deeply humanistic questions. And these questions require all of us to answer them.'

techcrunch.com/2024/03/09/wom…

Don't waste your time trying to engineer the perfect prompt for a LLM. Let the LLM do it.
'...in almost every case, this automatically generated prompt did better than the best prompt found through trial-and-error.'
Great article by my colleague Dina Genkina spectrum.ieee.org/prompt-enginee…

⚠️ 5 out of 5 chatbots tested —“OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4, Meta’s Llama 2, Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, and Mixtral from the French company Mistral — failed to varying degrees when asked to respond to basic questions about the democratic process”

politico.com/news/2024/02/2…

Google presents: Do Large Language Models Latently Perform Multi-Hop Reasoning?

Finds strong evidence of latent multi-hop reasoning for the prompts of certain relation types, with the reasoning pathway used in more than 80% of the prompts

arxiv.org/abs/2402.16837

Comparison of Nemotron-4 15B across seven evaluation areas against similarly sized models

#SXSW2024 attendees can join Sony AI President Michael Spranger and IEEE Spectrum Senior Editor Eliza Strickland on 3/13 for the fireside chat, “Ethics in an AI World - Better to be Seen or Unseen.” bit.ly/3HP2Fru

As you know, my explorations of the Gen AI space is ultimately all about creative control. You should be able to shape the generative matter using all your artistic sensibilities and your aesthetic sense.

OpenAI's Sora is a huge technological leap, but what excites me the most

It's only been 5 hours since Open AI announced Sora, and people are going crazy over it.

Here are 10 wild examples you don't want to miss:

1. Snow dogs