Smarter way to program Smart Contracts

Plus: AI powered drones in US Airforce

August 04, 2023

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In today’s update:

📰 News: Smarter way to program Smart Contracts

🛠️ Tools: AI toolkit for creatives

🎲 Misc: IBM and NASA teaming up on AI

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 Big Tech

Smarter way to write Smart Contracts

While Crypto is at low point in its hype cycle, enterprises are still signing up for blockchain technology.

The demand for blockchain skills went up by 552% in 2022, but only 1% of developers are proficient in programming smart contracts!

SettleMint, a blockchain development platform, released a new AI assistant to speed up development of smart contracts, help with debugging and to avoid vulnerabilities in code.

The AI assistant:

  • Provides detailed explanations for every line of code to help you understand and debug faster

  • Suggests modifications to help avoid known vulnerabilities

Behind the lines: Tech companies are using OpenAI’s GPT-4 to train their own AI models. SettleMint’s AI assistant uses GPT-4 fine-tunes on up to date blockchain documentations. This approach bypasses the costly process of training a new AI model from scratch.

Leverage AI Tools

Design your own Outerwear

Use text prompts to design outerwear

AIO: A fashion-tech platform to design clothes. Without any experience in design you can just simply select from predetermined options like gender, type of clothing, length, and closure, or freely use a custom prompt to tell us what you want.(link)

AI Toolkit for Creatives

Alpaca ML: A personalized AI toolkit for artists, designed to help you explore further, iterate faster, and amplify your creative potential(link)

 Today in Tech

Autonomous Drone, XQ-58 (right)

  • Autonomous Drone: The U.S. Air Force has successfully developed an AI program capable of executing unmanned aerial combat missions.- The Drive

  • Good Read: The economic case for Generative AI and Foundation Models, and what it means for tech industry- A16z

  • FCC fines Spam Callers: FCC fines robo-caller of infamous “expired auto-warranty” calls a record $300M after blocking billions of their scam calls - Techcrunch

  • Privacy Tools: Google expands its privacy tools, including to alert users when their personal info appears in Search and to remove consensual explicit images from Search - Engadget

  • Monitor Climate Change: IBM and NASA are teaming up to build the GPT of Earth sciences - A new open-source model to serve as the basis for future forest, crop and climate change-monitoring AI - Engadget