Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday stated as a lot as 30% of the corporate’s code is now written by synthetic intelligence.
“I’d say maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software,” he advised Mark Zuckerberg throughout a reside dialog at Meta’s inaugural LlamaCon AI developer occasion in Menlo Park, Calif.
The quantity of code being written by AI at Microsoft is rising steadily, Nadella stated.
As for Meta, Zuckerberg advised Nadella he didn’t know the precise quantity of code coming from AI.
However he stated that Meta is engaged on an AI mannequin highly effective sufficient to construct future applications for the corporate’s household of AI fashions.
“Our bet is sort of that in the next year probably … maybe half the development is going to be done by AI, as opposed to people, and then that will just kind of increase from there,” Zuckerberg stated.
Microsoft and Meta collectively make use of tens of 1000’s of software program builders.
However increasingly tech firms have been mulling methods to exchange human staff with AI bots to chop down on prices.
In line with a McKinsey report, 30% of US jobs may very well be totally automated by 2030, whereas 60% shall be considerably altered by AI instruments. Goldman Sachs equally expects as much as 50% of jobs to be totally automated by 2045.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai in October stated that greater than 25% of the agency’s new code was written by AI.
Different executives have signaled they’re rolling again new hires and mandating their groups lean extra closely on AI use.
Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke earlier this month advised staff that they must show AI can not do a job earlier than they ask for extra headcount.
This week, Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn equally introduced that the corporate will progressively cease utilizing contractors for jobs that AI can take over, and can solely approve additional headcount for a workforce if AI can’t be carried out.
