AI versus Marshy #25: from scratch, calendar hack, and more accessible coding

G’day! Welcome to another edition of AI versus Marshy - we’re at edition #25!

Thanks to the original readers who have been here since edition 1, and for our new readers - I’m a growth marketer with a conscience trying to make sense of the trends in this space - and there’s been quite a lot happening in 5-6 months 🙃

This week:

🧱 Building new materials with AI

📅 Tool (tip) of the week - calendar hack

💥 Is AI coding the new no-code?

Let’s get into it,

-Marshy

New elements via AI

Google’s DeepMind is a project that started in 2010 seeking to build general AI systems with an interdisciplinary approach.

This means moving outside traditional tech realms - software, connectivity, interfaces - and into areas less explored…

Like creating new freaking materials from scratch.

​MIT Technology Review reports on the breakthrough (via Nature).

Sometimes I pretend I know what I’m talking about - and yeah I am not doing that with this image

GNoME is their AI tool that predicts the structures for new materials.

Think of the elemental table, and then think of all the possible combinations and permutations possible to create materials.

Building all of these is currently impossible.

GNoME seems to be able to simulate new structures of materials by combining millions of combinations that “work” (2.2m) and of these - 700 new materials have moved forward into lab stages for testing and working with.

The goal of testing is stability - and thanks to this tool and combined with robotic arms - the amount of stable materials that “exist” - has increased almost tenfold.

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When we try and wrap our head around AI - it’s often easy to get sucked into this nifty tool, or being able to talk to an agent.

The real meaty use cases couldn’t be further from that world. Creating new THINGS is a possibility thanks to tech like this.

Another example of simulations for real-world impact is “digital twinning” which I first mentioned in #14, and was an example of the kinds of projects my old engineering client worked on.

Tool (tip) of the week - calendar hack

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Jodie Cook, founder of coachvox.ai, shared this nugget recently.

I chucked next week in (ChatGPT pro required) and received this wisdom:

Well now!

A serene time to focus on high-value work!

Well would you look at that 👀

AI Coding is the new no-coding

I’m a big fan of Ben and his bites about AI and he’s started to more detailed takes on trends he is seeing in the space.

His take on AI coding is great thinking.

He shares who the players are in the space, what he’s investing in, and what I like most - ideas you could literally run away with and build TODAY.

Not next year.

Today!

Some good ones include -

• A YouTube channel copying mini tools and showing you how to build them with code + AI, and
• A course focused on coding with AI tools

I’ve noticed my confidence has increased in recent months.

I love Webflow (what my site is built on) and sometimes things break when I change it.

I can troubleshoot things talking with an agent and get to the root problem FAR faster than searching for answers - where I would be hit with walls of assumed knowledge.

Watch this space 👀

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Apologies for the later mail today - I did a client day trip to Sydney but was keen to get this out on the day it usually goes.

The next few weeks will likely be lighter on content/scheduled and I’m thinking of doing an end of year wrap with some goodies/giveaways.

Stay tuned, we’ve got this!

-Marshy

p.s. Here’s the baby mantis that was checking to make sure I shipped today (from our backyard!)

Use the mouse, Luke

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