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INTRODUCING GITHUB COPILOT EXTENSIONS: UNLOCKING UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES WITH OUR ECOSYSTEM OF PARTNERS

GitHub Copilot Extensions enables developers to build and deploy to the cloud in their natural language with their preferred tools and services without leaving the IDE or GitHub.com. It helps developers stay in the flow longer, uplevel their skills, and innovate faster. Extensions can be found on the GitHub Marketplace. Organizations can create private Copilot Extensions for their homegrown developer tooling.

BUILDING AN AI GAME STUDIO: WHAT WE'VE LEARNED SO FAR

Braindump allows developers to build top-down/2.5D games or interactive worlds by simply typing prompts. It generates 3D models, game data, and scripts to make prompts come to life. This article shares learnings from Braindump's development. Challenges in its development include designing a UX for prompting and a game API for large language models. The game API has opened up interesting UX flows like generated macros. While Braindump is pretty good at executing commands, its team wants to expand it to handle more vague and bigger tasks. Braindump will open up for alpha testing in the coming weeks.

NEW ANTHROPIC RESEARCH SHEDS LIGHT ON AI'S 'BLACK BOX'

Anthropic recently published a public research paper explaining why its AI chatbot chooses to generate content about certain subjects over others. Its researchers deciphered what parts of the chatbot's neural network mapped to specific concepts using a process known as 'dictionary learning'. The research showed how neurons associated with a topic fired together when the model was thinking about something associated with the topic - similar sets of neurons firing can evoke adjacent subjects. A link to the paper is available at the end of the article.

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