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  • Meta seeks OpenAI’s help to create coding assistant for its engineers

    Meta seeks OpenAI’s help to create coding assistant for its engineers

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    New Delhi: Meta (formerly Facebook) is reportedly in touch with Microsoft and OpenAI to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant for its engineers.

    According to ‘Command Line’ by The Verge’s Alex Heath, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth recently told employees about the plan, saying the cost for building an AI coding engineer is “crazy” at about seven cents per query.

    “That’s the only place in the company we’re really considering working with Microsoft and OpenAI, just because there’s a natural business integration there,” he told employees.

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    He revealed that the company is also working on a “companion that is more about all of our code and our internal documentation, built on our own infrastructure”.

    “We are moving very fast. I think we’ll have something to play with internally, I’m hoping in mid-June, maybe late June,” Bosworth said.

    According to reports, OpenAI has received $300 million from VCs at a valuation of $27-$29 billion.

    VC firms, including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive and K2 Global picking up new shares, according to documents seen by TechCrunch.

    Microsoft has already infused around $10 billion in OpenAI that is behind the highly-successful generative AI chatbot called ChatGPT.

    ChatGPT has been a hit, with more than one billion visitors to its website in February, according to SimilarWeb data.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • I wish more Indian kids, including girls, learn coding early: Tim Cook

    I wish more Indian kids, including girls, learn coding early: Tim Cook

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    New Delhi: Coding is the only global language and I wish that more Indian students, including girls, learn coding early in school days so that they can create world-class products and solve real-life problems as they grow up, Apple CEO Tim Cook has stressed.

    In an interaction with IANS during his India visit last week, Cook said that coding is one thing schools worldwide including in India should embrace early in children’s lives.

    “Coding is the only global language. It is a way to express yourself and arguably, we need more of that in the world and bring the world closer,” said Cook, who has always emphasised that coding should be taught as early as elementary school.

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    Cook told IANS that everyone should learn programming before they graduate from high school.

    “It is the most important language you can learn. A programming language is a way to tap into your creativity and unleash it to the world,” he added.

    The Apple CEO has always emphasised on including coding in school curriculum, saying a four-year degree is not necessary to be proficient at coding.

    Apart from empowering developers via its Bengaluru-based App Accelerator, Apple has taken another significant leap: nurturing young talent in coding across schools and colleges in the country via powerful apps.

    For young coders, Apple offers Swift which is a powerful open language that lets everyone build amazing apps.

    Last year, Patiala-born Jaskaran Singh and Pune-based Jay Firke were among more than 350 students from 40 countries and regions who were selected as Apple’s ‘2022 Swift Student Challenge’ winner for showcasing extraordinary coding skills.

    Singh developed a productivity app called ‘Nudges: Minimal To-Do’, which is available on the App Store.

    Firke, 21, is a self-taught developer and learnt coding using online resources. Having studied at MacroVision Academy in Burhanpur, Madhya Pradesh, he is focused on working in the AI and AR space and his submission with ‘PushARBall’ was completely AI driven.

    The ‘Swift Student Challenge’ is part of Apple’s Worldwide Developers’ Conference (WWDC).

    Moreover, Xcode is an integrated development environment (IDE) for macOS containing a suite of software development tools.

    In Cook’s words, every kid should learn to code as coding is the most important second language they can learn.

    “Coding is one of the most valuable skills a person can learn. It can open new doors, jumpstart careers, and help big dreams seem like achievable goals. Everyone around the world should have an opportunity to learn how to code,” according to the Apple CEO.

    (Nishant Arora can be reached at nishant.a@ians.in)

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )