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Study Finds AI Assistants Help Developers Produce Code That’s More Likely To Be Buggy
Computer scientists from Stanford University have found that programmers who accept help from AI tools like Github Copilot produce less secure code than those who fly solo. From a report: In a paper titled, “Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?”, Stanford boffins Neil Perry, Megha Srivastava, Deepak Read more…
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How Kindle Novelists Are Using ChatGPT’s AI
The Verge presents what it’s calling “an interview with an AI early adopter,” who is currently using ChatGPT not just to generate titles, but also the plots for their mysteries. For example, “I need four murder suspects with information about why they’re suspected and how they are cleared. And then Read more…
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Customers React to McDonalds’ Almost Fully-Automated Restaurant
“The first mostly non-human-run McDonald’s is open for business just outside Fort Worth, Texas,” reports the Guardian. CNN calls it “an almost fully-automated restaurant,” noting there’s just one self-service kiosk (with a credit card reader) for ordering food. McDonalds tells CNN there’s “some interaction between customers and the restaurant team” Read more…
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Gene-edited Hens May End Cull of Billions of Chicks
Israeli researchers say they have developed gene-edited hens that lay eggs from which only female chicks hatch. The breakthrough could prevent the slaughter of billions of male chickens each year, which are culled because they don’t lay eggs. The female chicks, and the eggs they lay when they mature, have Read more…
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A Modest Robot Levy Could Help Combat Effects of Automation On Income Inequality In US, Study Suggests
What if the U.S. placed a tax on robots? The concept has been publicly discussed by policy analysts, scholars, and Bill Gates (who favors the notion). Because robots can replace jobs, the idea goes, a stiff tax on them would give firms incentive to help retain workers, while also compensating Read more…
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