Hugh Langley

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.jp | Hugh Langley

グーグルは、AIがエンジニアの生産性をどの程度向上させているかを追跡している。また、その効果を測定するための手法も開発してきた。 6月6日に配信されたポッドキャスト「Lex Fridman Podcast」のエピソードで、グーグルのスンダー・ピチャイCEOは、AIがソフトウェア開発者の生産性をどのように向上させているかを詳細に調査していると語った。 「私たちが慎重に測定している最も重要な指標は、AIによってグーグルのエンジニアリング速度がどれだけ向上したかということです」（ピチャイ氏） 「AIによってエンジニアが取り戻せた時間」を測る ピチャイ氏によると、グーグルの試算で10%のエンジニアリング速度向上が確認されているという。 グーグルの広報担当者はビジネスインサイダーに対し、エンジニアリング能力の向上を追跡する方法を説明。AIツールの使用によって増えたエンジニアリング能力を、週あたりの時間で測定しているという。 これは要するに、AIによってエンジニアが取り戻せた時間を測っているということだ。 ピチャイ氏は、10％という数値が今後も増加するかどうかについては言及しなかった。...

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Leena Rao |Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert |Hugh Langley |Henry Blodget

Google expanded its return-to-office mandate and offered voluntary buyouts for some US-based employees on Tuesday, according to an internal memo viewed by Business Insider. Employees on Google's Core, Marketing, Research, Knowledge & Information (K&I), and Communications teams all received the buyout offers. K&I includes teams working on Search, ads and commerce.

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Robert Scammell |Hugh Langley |Henry Blodget

Google is tracking how AI is making its engineers more productive — and has developed a specific way to measure it. Speaking on an episode of the "Lex Fridman Podcast" that aired last week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that the company was looking closely at how artificial intelligence was boosting productivity among its software developers. "The most important metric, and we carefully measure it, is how much has our engineering velocity increased as a company due to AI?" he said.

2 weeks ago | share.google | Hugh Langley

Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company is tracking how AI makes its engineers more productive. During the "Lex Fridman Podcast," Pichai estimated a 10% increase in engineering capacity. Separately, Google and Microsoft have publicly shared how much of their code is being generated by AI.

3 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Robert Scammell |Hugh Langley |Henry Blodget

AI is already entering the workplace, so how should employees make sure it doesn't take their jobs? For HR software company Lattice, the answer is to embrace it now and get ahead. Last month, the company announced it was launching an AI agent designed to help HR teams. The agent would effectively give employees a digital copilot to answer questions about payroll, benefits, and other things they might usually message a human about.