Meta's Chatbots, OpenAI's ChatGPT Upgrade, Kenya's Cyber-Attacks Surge, LinkedIn's AI-Driven Recruitment and more!
Devkit Dispatch: 32nd Edition.
🗓️ Date: 03-10-2023 | 👥 Total Readers: 460+
Hello DevKit family! Here's your curated digest of the tech world. Dive in, and don't forget to share your thoughts in our discord.
Now, it’s time to Dispatch!
🧠 Fun Fact
Did you know that Wikipedia Is Maintained by Thousands of Bots?
Today, there are 2468 bot tasks approved to carry out maintenance jobs on more than 52 million English Wikipedia pages.
Wikipedia bots perform operations such as new page creation, spelling correction, style correction, etc. Bots can also revert the pages to the original version when edits are made due to vandalism.
Anyone with programming knowledge can easily create bots for Wikipedia.
However, these programs need to be approved by the Bot Approval Group before they can maintain Wikipedia pages.
📡 Tech Pulse: Latest happenings in the tech universe.
Meta Unveils Customizable Chatbots, OpenAI Enhances ChatGPT with Web Search: Meta introduced customizable AI chatbots for various applications, while OpenAI upgraded ChatGPT with native web search capabilities for more interactive user engagement.
Kenya Hit by Record 860 Million Cyber-Attacks in Past Year: Kenya's communications regulator reported a surge in cyber-attacks to 860 million over the last year, highlighting a significant rise in cyber threats targeting the nation's critical infrastructure.
LinkedIn Integrates OpenAI-Powered Tools for Enhanced Recruitment and Learning: LinkedIn unveils AI-driven features for job recruitment, learning, marketing, and sales, leveraging OpenAI and Microsoft technologies to enhance user engagement and platform capabilities.
📘 Dev Resources: Handpicked tools and reads.
Harvard University: CS50's Introduction to Cybersecurity: An introduction to cybersecurity for technical and non-technical audiences alike.
CS25 I Stanford Seminar - Transformers United 2023: Introduction to Transformers: In this speaker series, they examine the details of how transformers work, and dive deep into the different kinds of transformers and how they're applied in different fields. They do this by inviting people at the forefront of transformers research across different domains for guest lectures.
Rust vs Go : Hands On Comparison:
🌐 Git Repos Spotlight: Emerging stars from the open-source galaxy.
novu: The ultimate service for managing multi-channel notifications with a single API.
OpenCore Legacy Patcher: A Python-based project revolving around Acidanthera's OpenCorePkg and Lilu for both running and unlocking features in macOS on supported and unsupported Macs.
Plane: Open-source, self-hosted project planning tool.
🎧 Get Hooked: Podcast of the Week!
Welcome to "Get Hooked," where we share our top podcast of the week for you to listen to. Enjoy!
About the podcast:
Dr. Leo Porter and Dr. Daniel Zingaro, co-authors of the book Learn AI-Assisted Python Programming, speak with host Jeremy Jung about teaching programming with the aid of large language models (LLMs). They discuss writing a book to use in Leo’s introductory CS class and explore how GitHub Copilot de-emphasizes syntax errors, reduces the need to memorize APIs, and why they want students to write manual test cases. They also discuss possible ethical concerns of relying on commercial tools, their impact on coursework, and why they aren’t worried about students cheating with LLMs.
SE Radio 582: Leo Porter and Daniel Zingaro on Learning to Program with LLMs
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