{"id":183672,"date":"2024-02-26T11:52:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T17:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/ai-startup-magic-is-building-a-superhuman-software-engineer"},"modified":"2024-02-26T11:52:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T17:52:02","slug":"ai-startup-magic-is-building-a-superhuman-software-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/ai-startup-magic-is-building-a-superhuman-software-engineer","title":{"rendered":"AI startup Magic is building a \u201csuperhuman software engineer\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iNc-PfDcT-8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>San Francisco-based startup Magic AI just secured more than $100 million in funding to develop an AI software engineer, which it sees as a milestone along the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/magicailabs\/status\/1758140204446323188\">path to artificial general intelligence (AGI)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The background: <\/strong>Everything we see and do on our devices starts as code, and traditionally, that code was written by trained software engineers. In 2021, OpenAI disrupted this paradigm with <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/blog\/openai-codex\">CODEX<\/a>, an AI that can write computer code in response to prompts written in natural language.<\/p>\n<p>CODEX became the basis for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/robots-ai\/github-copilot\">GitHub Copilot<\/a>, a tool that speeds up programming by generating new code in response to prompts, auto-completing code an engineer has started writing, and more. This can speed up programming by an <a href=\"https:\/\/github.blog\/2022-09-07-research-quantifying-github-copilots-impact-on-developer-productivity-and-happiness\/\">average of 55%<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.blog\/2023-06-27-the-economic-impact-of-the-ai-powered-developer-lifecycle-and-lessons-from-github-copilot\/\">more than a million developers<\/a> have used GitHub Copilot since its release in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco-based startup Magic AI just secured more than $100 million in funding to develop an AI software engineer, which it sees as a milestone along the path to artificial general intelligence (AGI). The background: Everything we see and do on our devices starts as code, and traditionally, that code was written by trained software [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183672","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}