How AI has Changed My Field

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Book Recommendation: If you’re new here, I always celebrate the ways Intelligent Automation is?making our world more human. Check out the book that started it all from co-author Ian Barkin .

In 2024, there is one thing for certain in this digital age,

The people who own content are NO LONGER KINGS.

It's the people who own AI factories who are kings.

The people who own the algorithms are kings.

The people who own the data are kings.

3 top stories we don’t want you to miss:

1 [AI Factories] There's a new class of data centers!

• Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA is the industry's first comprehensive AI solution to help enterprises quickly capitalize on AI investments
• Organizations can seamlessly integrate data with their own use cases and streamline the development of customized GenAI models.(see video below)

2 [AI Agents] Start-up builds tech that can code like a human!

• Devin is a software development assistant in the vein of Copilot, which was built by GitHub, Microsoft and OpenAI, but, like, a next-level software development assistant.
• Instead of just offering coding suggestions and auto-completing some tasks, Devin can take on and finish an entire software project on its own.(see video below)

3 [Open-sourced AI] Grok: The Anti-Hero of LLMs?

• Grok, the large language model (LLM) developed by xAI, was recently open-sourced under an Apache License 2.0. This move allows entrepreneurs, programmers, companies, and individuals to access Grok's weights and network architecture for commercial applications.
• By open-sourcing Grok, Musk aims to boost adoption, gather feedback for improvements, and highlight what he views as a flaw in OpenAI's strategy. Musk emphasizes that OpenAI's closed technology approach limits transparency and can result in misleading claims.

2 posts you can't miss:

• Do you need to hire software engineers anymore?
• Unleash the power of Upskilling this weekend

Coders Build an AI That Can Do Their Job for Them

A team of 10 individuals secured $21 million from Peter Thiel's venture capital firm, Founders Fund, and notable investors like former Twitter executive Elad Gil. Does this mean they no longer need to work?

The TL;DR (Too Long; Didn't Read) As reported by Bloomberg, the co-founders of Cognition Labs have excelled in international coding competitions since their teenage years, frequently emerging victorious and contributing to the advancement of the US national coding team. Recently, they launched an AI autonomous software engineer agent named Devin that...

• Can plan and execute complex engineering tasks requiring thousands of decisions. Devin can recall relevant context at every step, learn over time, and fix mistakes.
• Is equipped with common developer tools including the shell, code editor, and browser within a sandboxed compute environment—everything a human would need to do their work.
• Has the ability to actively collaborate with the user. It reports on its progress in real-time, accepts feedback, and works together with you through design choices as needed.

Why It Matters:

Cognition Labs is asserting a significant claim with Devin - that the AI possesses the capability to reason. In AI, reasoning goes beyond predicting the next word or code snippet. It's more like critical thinking and logical problem-solving (Bloomberg, Cognition Labs).

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Videos To Watch

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Tooltips: Here is a LinkedIn feature, that's been around for a while, but most people still don't use right:

How to Schedule Posts on Linkedin??

And there you have it!?I’ll be back on Friday with a fresh roundup of practical intelligent automation tools and growth strategies for you to try out. RampUP!

— Kendall E. Matthews, AI Evangelist

I'm an Intelligent Automation & Growth Product Marketing expert acting as a bridge between technical teams, business leaders, and the wider community, working to demystify AI, showcase its potential, and promote its ethical and responsible use.

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