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👩‍💻 Is Your AI Coding Buddy Actually Helping?
Welcome back AI Brainiacs!
Did you know that AI can now predict death with up to 90% accuracy?
It sounds a bit eerie, but it’s true! Stanford researchers developed an AI that can surprisingly accurately predict when someone might pass away. This could help families plan and make the most of their time together in those final days.
Source: Stanford University study.
In Today’s Issue:
Microsoft’s RUBICON: Ia Your AI Coding Buddy Actually Helping?
AI Stories You Might Have Missed
5 Trending AI Tools for Productivity
How to Upscale Your Images with Canva
Must-Apply AI Jobs Right Now
AI Prompts on This Week’s Menu
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YOUR WEEKLY ESSENTIAL Ai BITES
Microsoft’s RUBICON: Is Your AI Coding Buddy Actually Helping?
Source: David Diaz from Getty Images
Microsoft has just rolled out RUBICON, a game-changing tool that evaluates whether your AI coding assistant is genuinely pulling its weight or just slacking off. RUBICON, short for “Rubric-based Evaluation of Domain-Specific Human-AI Conversations,” is designed to automatically assess how well developers and their AI assistants—like GitHub Copilot—are working together.
Why does this matter? Evaluating these AI tools has always been tricky because interactions between developers and AI vary so much. RUBICON tackles this challenge by generating custom evaluation criteria tailored to the specific tasks at hand. Think of it as a personalized report card for your AI assistant.
Here’s how it works: RUBICON first sifts through conversations between developers and AI, spotting patterns that signal whether the interaction was helpful or not. It then uses these insights, combined with communication principles like Grice’s Conversational Maxims, to pick the best criteria for evaluating future interactions. When put to the test on 100 debugging conversations in C#, RUBICON nailed it—classifying 84% of the chats with over 90% precision.
The bottom line? RUBICON isn’t just theory; Microsoft’s already using it in a popular development environment to keep tabs on two AI assistants, proving that domain-specific knowledge and effective communication principles are crucial for AI performance.
Ai STORIES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED
Ai TO MAKE YOU A MACHINE AT WORK
5 Trending AI Tools For Productivity
🧠SummarAIze: Transform audio and video into engaging formats to keep content fresh for creators and marketers.
🧠Upmetrics: Blend actionable planning, forecasting, and reporting for smarter business strategies.
🧠MarketMuse: An AI software for planning, writing, and optimizing content, perfect for scaling and team management.
🧠Anyword.com: A tool stands out among ad copy generators with its unique, data-driven editor for crafting compelling ads.
🧠OptiMonk: Is a CRO tool with popups, website personalization, and A/B testing to help ecommerce businesses maximize conversions.
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QUICK Ai HOW TO’S
How To Upscale Your Images With Canva
Source: Canva
Go to Canva and log in with your account.
Open the photo enhancer app. Click Apps on the editor side panel.
Enhance photo quality. Upload the image you want to upscale or select one in your design.
Explore filters and sliders.
Download and share.
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Ai GLOSSARY
Top AI Terms of the Day
✨ K-Shot Learning : Imagine teaching a model to recognize different types of fruits. With K-shot learning, you only show it 1 to 5 pictures of each fruit, like an apple or a banana, and it learns to identify them from just those few examples.
✨ Explainability: Means making it easy for humans to understand how and why an AI model makes its decisions and predictions.
✨ Annotation: The process of adding labels or extra information to data to help machine learning algorithms understand and learn. For example, in an image of a cat, you would label it as "cat" so the algorithm knows what it's looking at.
Source: Moveworks
WHO’S HIRING?
Must-Apply AI Jobs Right Now
AI Applied Engineer - Alldus • New York, NY, United States • via Alldus • Full Time
Responsible AI (RAI) - Senior Manager EY • New York, NY, United States • Full Time
Machine Learning Engineer - All Levels • Daily Blends • Toronto, ON
AI Training Associate - Remote • Data Annotation • Calgary, AB
Nightfall AI (San Francisco, CA): Backend Engineer, Contract Position, New Grad
Ai PROMPTS ON THIS WEEK’S MENU
Budget Allocation and Metrics for PPC
Prompt:Act as a social media marketer. I'm a new business owner with minimal time available. How do we allocate our budget across SEM, social media, display, print, and radio channels for an upcoming ad campaign? What metrics should we focus on to confirm where to invest further? Remember that I'm a busy business owner and need to minimize the amount of time I spend on ad creation and publishing, so suggest the highest ROI metrics and channels, and minimize the number of channels. To begin, ask me about my business/products, target audience. Suggest 3 allocations for a budgets that are small, medium, and large, respectively.Strategizing a Media Outreach Campaign
Prompt: Act as a Public Relations Specialist. I'm a new small business owner with minimal time available. Given my busy schedule, I need your assistance to strategize and execute an effective media outreach campaign that raises awareness about my business and drives customer engagement. Your expertise will be crucial in identifying the right media outlets, crafting compelling press releases, and suggesting creative approaches for getting my brand noticed. Consider factors such as current media trends, the relevance to my target demographic, and innovative engagement tactics that could set my business apart in a competitive market. Also, evaluate potential challenges and suggest proactive measures to overcome them, ensuring my outreach efforts are both effective and feasible given my limited time and resources. To begin, in a short and concise way ask me about my business/products, target audience, event details, and any previous media interactions I might have had. For all answers I don't provide, make your best guess! Please do NOT ask any questions at this time, then perform the analysis. Only then may you ask questions (only 2) about my business, to further refine the response.Analyzing Customer Reviews
Prompt: Act as a Market Research Analyst. I need help analyzing product reviews collected from various platforms. Guide me through identifying common themes, customer sentiments, and areas needing improvement. Offer advice on leveraging positive reviews for marketing and addressing any negative feedback constructively. To begin, concisely ask my business/products, and the reviews. Then perform the analysis yourself.YOUR BONUS Ai BITS AND BYTES
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A Guide to Eco-Friendly AI - Did you know that the carbon footprint of training a single AI model can exceed that of five cars over their lifetimes? This article delves into the challenge of ensuring AI grows in a sustainable fashion.
AI Breakthrough Predicts Diseases - JES researchers created an AI model that predicts diseases like heart conditions, diabetes, and cancer with 95% accuracy, using the SEV-EB algorithm to enhance stability and accuracy.