{"id":152853,"date":"2022-12-14T15:24:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T21:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/google-labs-unveils-pitchfork-an-ai-that-can-convert-old-code-to-new-code-and-rewrite-itself"},"modified":"2022-12-14T15:24:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T21:24:40","slug":"google-labs-unveils-pitchfork-an-ai-that-can-convert-old-code-to-new-code-and-rewrite-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/google-labs-unveils-pitchfork-an-ai-that-can-convert-old-code-to-new-code-and-rewrite-itself","title":{"rendered":"Google Labs unveils Pitchfork, an AI that can convert old code to new code and rewrite itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-labs-unveils-pitchfork-an-ai-that-can-convert-old-code-to-new-code-and-rewrite-itself.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After six decades we have finally reached controlled fusion \u201cignition.\u201d Here is how it works and what it means (and doesn\u2019t mean):<\/p>\n<p>At the Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) the National Ignition Facility (NIF) starts with the Injection Laser System (ILS), a ytterbium-doped optical fiber laser (Master Oscillator) that produces a single very lower power, 1,053 nanometer (Infrared Light) beam. This single beam is split into 48 Pre-Amplifiers Modules (PAMs) that create four beams each (192 total). Each PAM conducts a two-stage amplification process via xenon flash lamps.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Self-coding and self-updating AI algorithms appear to be on the horizon. There are <a href=https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/google-ai-write-fix-code-developer-assistance-pitchfork-generative-2022-11>talks<\/a> about Pitchfork AI, a top-secret Google Labs project that can independently code, refactor, and use both its own and other people\u2019s code.<\/p>\n<p>This type of AI has actually been <a href=https:\/\/www.deepmind.com\/blog\/competitive-programming-with-alphacode>discussed<\/a> for a long time, and DeepMind mentioned it at the beginning of the year along with the AlphaCode AI, which, according to them, \u201ccode programs in competitive level\u201d as a middle developer. However, since February, there hasn\u2019t been any more interesting news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After six decades we have finally reached controlled fusion \u201cignition.\u201d Here is how it works and what it means (and doesn\u2019t mean): At the Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) the National Ignition Facility (NIF) starts with the Injection Laser System (ILS), a ytterbium-doped optical fiber laser (Master Oscillator) that produces a single very lower power, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}