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We got a glimpse into the future last week with the demo of Devin from Cognition. Devin is an AI agent that is capable of planning, coding, using a browser, and reasoning to solve problems. Cognition positions Devin as “the first AI software engineer.” The demos are very impressive, and the hype from tech leaders was buzzing on Twitter, but what does that mean for programmers and businesses? In the near term, not much. But, as I explain on this week’s podcast, it helps us envision the impact AI agents will have on knowledge work and future org charts. To determine when a task or a job will be transformed by AI agents you have to consider a number of variables such as: reliability and the risk of it being wrong, how repetitive and predictable the task is, how much human oversight is needed, and how complex it is, such as the need for reasoning and mathematics and common sense and intuition. So it’s not like we’re going to be able to just turn these agents on and they’re just going to do everything. We’re going to need to be observers and trainers and mentors and managers of the agents. I think a lot of jobs in the coming five years will evolve to work with agents in this way. Your domain experience and expertise, plus intuition and common sense, will be needed to make these agents economically viable. I expect we will see lots more announcements and impressive AI agent demos this year from Google, Microsoft, Apple, OpenAI, Adept, Hyperwrite, MultiOn and others. AI agents will disrupt (and re-invent) work, but we still have time to prepare. Adoption and impact will be more of a gradual slope than a cliff. All that plus a major advancement in humanoid robots from Figure + OpenAI; more insights into OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video platform; and an unexpected potential generative AI partnership between Google and Apple. 00:03:27 —  Cognition releases Devin, the first “AI software engineer” 00:14:52 — The Significance Behind Figure’s Humanoid Robots 00:22:08 — OpenAI CTO Questioned on Sora AI Model's Data Sources in WSJ Interview 00:29:13 — European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act approved by the European Parliament 00:33:46 —  Suno AI, music generation based on text prompts 00:39:04 — Elon Musk’s Grok is now open source 00:43:26 — The Top 100 Consumer GenAI Apps from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz 00:46:58 — Apple in talks to build Google’s Gemini AI into the iPhone 00:50:06 — Midjourney introduces feature to maintain consistency in image creation https://lnkd.in/gWZ45b-d

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