The best startups of 2022. Spiritt-ready applications with text description
You don’t need to know how to program to create your own Airbnb or Pinterest counterpart. First there were nocode builders, and now you can create a ready-made application just by chatting with a chatbot.
Such is the chip of the startup Spiritt, which this week raised $5.5M in investment. Explain your idea to the robot – you get Android, iOS and web applications. A live person stamps the designs working together with the algorithm. You can try the service for free, and if you like the result, you can take it into production with a subscription starting at $350 per month.
What is the trend? From manual work to automation. Routine tasks of even highly paid employees can be outsourced to algorithms. If language models continue to develop at the same pace, then in 5-10 years any humanitarian will be able to write code no worse than modern Python and Java programmers.
More examples. OpenAI Codex is an algorithm that can write code based on regular language. It’s trained on terabytes of publicly available code on GitHub. GitHub recently revealed that 30% of the new code on the platform is written using Copilot, a Codex-based “virtual assistant.”
DeepMind (Google’s AI laboratory) recently introduced the AlphaCode neural network – it can write code at the level of an “average programmer”. The neuron was taught specifically for programming contests – the algorithm was among the top 54% of all contest participants.
Appy Pie created an app generator from plain text: you just tell the algorithm what you want and it will write a program for you.
LinkedIn founder Reed Hoffman founded Inflection AI, a startup that will help people communicate with computers in plain language. This is Hoffman’s first startup since selling LinkedIn for $26B in 2016.