Google Launches an AI Coding Bot For Android Developers (theverge.com) 16
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google is launching a new AI-powered coding bot for Android developers. During its I/O event on Wednesday, Google announced that the tool, called Studio Bot, will help developers build apps by generating code, fixing errors, and answering questions about Android. According to Google, the bot is built on Codey, the company's new foundational coding model that stems from its updated PaLM 2 large language model (LLM). Studio Bot supports both the Kotlin and Java programming languages and will live directly in the toolbar on Android Studio. There, developers can get quick answers to their questions or even have the bot debug a portion of their code.
While Google notes that developers don't need to share their source code with Google in order to use Studio Bot, the company will receive data on the conversations they have with the tool. Google says the bot is still in "very early days" but that it will continue training it to improve its answers. It's also currently only available to developers in the US for now via the Canary channel, and there's no word on when it will see a global launch.
While Google notes that developers don't need to share their source code with Google in order to use Studio Bot, the company will receive data on the conversations they have with the tool. Google says the bot is still in "very early days" but that it will continue training it to improve its answers. It's also currently only available to developers in the US for now via the Canary channel, and there's no word on when it will see a global launch.
The goal of Big Tech is clear! (Score:3, Interesting)
If it could be done, it would have been already (Score:4, Insightful)
Replace as many programmers with AI as possible and cut their head counts dramatically to cut costs. If your thinking about stem, just keep in mind you better go for the PHD top. And there will be few of those. Because most everyone else in tech will be minimum wage AI training jobs with most of those being over seas to cut costs.
We already went through this 20 years ago. Slashdot and every other tech site was prophesizing the doom of software engineering jobs in the USA and that all coding will be done in India. EVERY company tried to offshore their operations. Most brought them back. Now India is an essential component of their strategy, but the total number of software engineer positions has increased, not decreased. Only the shittiest of companies exclusively offshore...everyone who had useful applications and data learned quickly that you get what you pay for and quietly restored the majority of those local jobs.
This is a fad. Google, MS, IBM, and others have been working hard on this technology for a LONG time and pumping an insane amount of money into it and what do they have to show for it?...some Jeaporardy wins?...ChatGPT?...which is a novelty and curiosity.
What do all of those companies have in common? A MASSIVE MASSIVE incentive to cut their massive programmer cost. All 3 of these companies have platforms where they could be using Generative AI to write small applications, new drivers, etc.
If MS had decent working Generative AI, they wouldn't be showing you novelties and curiosities. They'd be showing you a service where you could build your own first-person-shooter XBox game...just say I want a game in space where I shoot spiders in a Taylor Swift video and the hero looks like me and the villains all look like the cast of Goodfellas...and the generative AI would be spewing out working XBox/Windows video games based on your parameters....of IBM would be selling a service to generate ETL jobs or something like that for mainframe customers. Google would be offering all sorts of niche Android apps for underserved use cases where it was too expensive to hire a dedicated team...as well as good AI testers that would revolutionize software development and guarantee the Android platform never has a bug again.
Anytime something has a MASSIVE MASSIVE world-changing amount of money to be generated, is well funded, but isn't actually showing results...shows you that it's bullshit. If Generate AI wasn't bullshit hype, we wouldn't be talking about AI, we'd be admiring the amazing work it's doing....all the amazing apps it wrote...not worrying about it someday taking our jobs, but worrying about the jobs ACTUALLY being lost.
Re: If it could be done, it would have been alread (Score:2)
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Being a PhD level CS/IT person, I think going for Master or even BA level is enough if you are good at it. If you are just average or not good, better look for a different career than software. The rest of STEM should not be affected though.
Re: The goal of Big Tech is clear! (Score:2)
Re: The goal of Big Tech is clear! (Score:2)
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Thanks for the clarification.
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Replace as many programmers with AI as possible and cut their head counts dramatically to cut costs. If your thinking about stem, just keep in mind you better go for the PHD top. And there will be few of those. Because most everyone else in tech will be minimum wage AI training jobs with most of those being over seas to cut costs.
All that and the PHDs will be outsourced too. Or do you think this tech stuff is going to stop with little bitty artificial intelligence. They gotta create a demand for the brain chips from all sorts of companies to control everyone even the retard police. Or do you not remember all those games since the 90's talking about robot cops? Either way its a shitty predicament overall yet there are still, in 2020 of all years, some absolute dumbfucks who are cheering on here in the USA getting owned by corporate a
Easy button for ads and tracking (Score:1)
Oh goody (Score:2)
I do believe I could find something more useful in it, if the search was better or there was a ton less garbage in it.
Google, please shove the hype up your ass (Score:3)
Good luck with that (Score:3)
As soon as the attackers find out what mistakes this bot makes, we will see these crapcode things fall on mass-scale. Of course some (few) coders will be able to compensate, but most will not.
No Code was talked about in 2016 at least (Score:1)