The Download: AI's coding promises, and OpenAI's longevity push

Ask people building generative AI what generative AI is good for right now--what they're really fired up about--and many will tell you: coding. Everyone from established AI giants to buzzy startups is promising to take coding assistants to the next level. The upshot is that developers could essentially turn into managers, who may spend more time reviewing and correcting code written by a model than writing it from scratch themselves. Many of the people building generative coding assistants think that they could be a fast track to artificial general intelligence, the hypothetical superhuman technology that a number of top firms claim to have in their sights.Read the full story. When you think of AI's contributions to science, you probably think of AlphaFold, the Google DeepMind protein-folding program that earned its creator a Nobel Prize last year.