There’s been a few public gaffes involving what looks like unsupervised or unvetted use of AI in recent times, involving the national flag, of all things. So it’s probably safe to say that trust in the tech may be high, but the same can’t quite be said about the people using the tech. With that in mind, it may sound a bit alarming when Microsoft, the company with a chequered history with its own Windows Updates, proclaimed that 20% – 30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software”.
TechCrunch cites Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella as saying so during a fireside chat with Meta head Mark Zuckerberg at the latter’s LlamaCon Conference. The figure was shares when Zuckerberg asked roughly how much of the former’s code is AI-generated today. For what it’s worth, Zuckerberg doesn’t seem to know the extend of AI-generated code within Meta.
For what it’s worth, Nadella said that Microsoft was seeing mixed results in AI-generated code across different languages, with more progress in Python and less in C++. On one hand, it’s nice that the acknowledgement of mixed results is there. But on the other, prior reports cite company CTO Kevin Scott as saying that he expects 95% of all code to be written by AI by 2030.
In the same vein, Google has previously told investors in an earnings call that over 30% of the company’s code was generated by AI, up from 25% in October. CEO Sundar Pichai said that “it’s deeply embedded in everything we do…including the finance team preparing for this earnings call”. Probably best to keep that in mind every time you see a Gemini-generated summary of a search you do.
(Source: TechCrunch, Business Insider, Moneycontrol)
