TECH GIRL ENERGY: The Weekly Debrief
Episode 7 – Coding with AI, VR Ambulances and Lost Cities
Harriet Taylor and Numi Gildert dive into their favourite tech headlines of the week;
1) Google CEO Sundar Pichai said this week that more than a quarter of code at Google is generated by AI – Harriet talks about her experiences using AI as a software engineer and what it could mean for the future of coding.
Coding with AI: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/29/24282757/google-new-code-generated-ai-q3-2024
2) Student paramedics in the West Midlands have been training for emergency driving with a virtual reality simulator. Could this technology be used for everyday drivers too?
VR Ambulances: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg0pwv94gpo
3) Luke Auld-Thomas, a PhD student at Tulane university in the US, discovered a lost city in Mexico by accident after finding Lidar data on the internet – proving sometimes scouring through sixteen pages of Google search can be worth it!
Lost Cities: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmznzkly3go
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