Tag: Programming

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Code Llama: the AI programming assistant with the best resume

Code Llama: the AI programming assistant with the best resume

Meta has released Code Llama, a set of AI models suitable for assistance in programming. It is based on the wildly popular open-source model Llama 2. Meta boasts some impressive results from AI benchmarks: is Code Llama the best coding assistant? In the scientific paper, Meta researchers talk ab... Read more

date7 months ago
ChatGPT writes incorrect (but convincing) code half the time

ChatGPT writes incorrect (but convincing) code half the time

ChatGPT produces incorrect code about half the time. This is what researchers at Purdue University have discovered, based on the OpenAI AI tool's answers to code queries from Stack Overflow. In the study, Purdue University researchers tested ChatGPT 's answers to 517 Stack Overflow questions. Th... Read more

date8 months ago
Google: ‘Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning’

Google: ‘Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning’

The tech giant says its AI chatbot is improving at things like math and programming. This week Google announced that Bard, its AI-powered chatbot, was getting better at logic and reasoning based tasks and queries. This must be welcome news given that the Google was late to the generative AI par... Read more

date10 months ago
Google: ‘Rust reduces Android vulnerabilities’

Google: ‘Rust reduces Android vulnerabilities’

The use of 'memory-safe' programming language Rust reduces the number of vulnerabilities in Android, according to Google. Android used to suffer many memory-related vulnerabilities, Google described in a recent blog post. Examples include excessive read, write and 'use after free'. These flaws m... Read more

date1 year ago
TypeScript 4.9 beta is live, but ECMAScript Decorators are missing

TypeScript 4.9 beta is live, but ECMAScript Decorators are missing

The beta of TypeScript 4.9 is available, including substantial enhancements such as the new 'satisfies' operator. However, ECMAScript Decorators, which were scheduled for this release, are likely to be delayed. TypeScript 4.9 will be available as a release candidate on November 1 and as a final ... Read more

date2 years ago
Microsoft develops AI tool for detecting programming errors

Microsoft develops AI tool for detecting programming errors

Researchers at Microsoft have developed BugLab, an autonomous AI tool capable of detecting errors in programming code. In this way, security incidents can be prevented. BugLab is an autonomous tool for fixing and detecting programming errors. Autonomous refers to the model used to train the tool... Read more

date2 years ago
Microsoft’s 64-bit Visual Studio preview is out for testing

Microsoft’s 64-bit Visual Studio preview is out for testing

Microsoft has released several developer tools, including the preview for the 64-bit version of Visual Studio 2022, ahead of the June 24 developer event. The first preview of Visual Studio 2022 comes after it has been kept at the 32-bit level for years, even as the hardware world transformed. Th... Read more

date3 years ago
New version of Pyston is 30 percent faster than Python

New version of Pyston is 30 percent faster than Python

The developers of Pyston have released version 2.2 of their runtime. Pyston is an adaptation of the popular programming language Python, with extra emphasis on speed. Poor performance when implementing their code is a problem that many Python developers face. This has led to the Pyston project. ... Read more

date3 years ago
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