Discover the unexpected ways AI is shaping our world in this week's Tech Girl Energy! Join Numi Gildert and Harriet Taylor as they dive into Google's groundbreaking use of AI for coding, explore innovative VR training for paramedics, and uncover a lost city in Mexico thanks to modern technology!
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