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

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