A hot potato: A lot of companies try to assuage fears that employees will lose their jobs to AI by assuring them they’ll be working alongside the tech, thereby improving efficiency and making their duties less tedious. That claim feels less convincing in light of a new survey that found 41% of managers said they are hoping to replace workers with cheaper AI tools in 2024.

A report by Beautiful.ai, which makes AI-powered presentation software, surveyed over 3,000 managers about AI tools in the workplace, how they’re being implemented, and what impact they believe these technologies will have.

The headline takeaway is that 41% of managers said they are hoping that they can replace employees with cheaper AI tools in 2024. This backs up previous reports that looked at potential jobs losses caused by generative AI, including one from September that predicted the technology would replace over 2 million US jobs by 2030. An earlier study claimed that generative AI could affect 300 million jobs globally.

Besides personal emails from Meta’s chief, the company is offering jobs to candidates without interviewing them, The Information has reported.

Devin, SIMA, Figure 1, all in 24 hours. What does it mean and are AI models taking the wheel? I’ll go through 5 relevant papers and 11 articles to get you all the relevant details, from what exactly Devin accomplished, and didn’t, to DeepMind’s new AGI-attempt-in-3D (SIMA) to just how far AI agents have come and what that means for the future of jobs. They’ll also be a guest star … discussing … me?

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Devin: https://www.cognition-labs.com/blog.
Devin YT: • AI trains an AI!
SWE-bench: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.06770.pdf.
Cognition Twitter: / with_replies.
Reality Check: / 1768056098995814836
Karpathy Tweet: / 1767598414945292695
Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl…
Chollet Prediction: / 1767935813646716976
https://magic.dev/
SIMA: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog…
SIMA Paper: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmi…
MobileAgent: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.16158.pdf.
OpenAI Agent: https://www.theinformation.com/articl…
Red Dead Redemption AI: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.03186.pdf.
RT-X: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog…
Figure 1 Hz: / 1767928771875868677
MasterPlan: https://www.figure.ai/master-plan.
Unit Cost: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/29/robot…
MMMU: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.16502.pdf.
https://github.com/MMMU-Benchmark/MMMU
Jeff Clune Tweet: / 1768320487627579466
Semianalysis: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/ai-dat…
Huang AGI Quote: https://www.reuters.com/technology/nv…
Altman Quote: https://www.marketingaiinstitute.com/.…
US Govt Report: https://twitter.com/jeffclune?ref_src…

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There is a new AI tool so smart that it can write code, create websites, and software with just a single prompt. Devin, created by the tech company Cognition, is the first AI software engineer. It can do pretty much everything you ask it to do. And the AI tool does not come with the intention to replace human engineers, it is designed to work hand-in-hand with them. The makers say that the AI tool has not been launched to replace human engineers but to make their lives easier.

“Today we’re excited to introduce Devin, the first AI software engineer. Devin is the new state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has successfully passed practical engineering interviews from leading AI companies, and has even completed real jobs on Upwork. Devin is an autonomous agent that solves engineering tasks through the use of its own shell, code editor, and web browser,” Cognition posted on Twitter aka X.

What makes Devin stand out is its incredible ability to think ahead and plan complex tasks. It can make thousands of decisions, learn from its mistakes, and get better over time. Plus, it has all the tools a human engineer needs, like a code editor and browser, right at its digital fingertips. Devin is considered the most advanced or cutting-edge solution available for evaluating software engineering tasks based on the SWE-bench coding benchmark. Essentially, it performed exceptionally well compared to other solutions when tested against a standard set of software engineering problems. The AI tool performed well in practical engineering interviews conducted by top artificial intelligence companies. These interviews likely involved tasks and challenges relevant to the field of AI and software engineering, and the AI assistant managed to meet expectations.

AI startup company Figure, which emerged from stealth last year, has unveiled the latest upgrades to its Figure 1 humanoid robot.

Founded in 2022 and publicly announced in March 2023, Figure is a California-based company with 80 employees that is building autonomous, general‑purpose humanoid robots. Its aim is to address labour shortages, fill jobs that are undesirable or unsafe for humans, and support a supply chain on a global scale.

The company is backed by a number of tech leaders including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, chipmaker NVIDIA, and Microsoft, and it recently announced a deal with ChatGPT‑maker OpenAI. Figure’s latest round of funding – which closed at $675 million – brought its total valuation to an impressive $2.6 billion.