Ilya Sutskever is wrong on this. The brain is not a digital computer and not really a computer at all, more like a quantum orchestra. Biology is based on organic carbon which supports quantum processes and self-similar dynamics in hertz, kilohertz, megahertz, gigahertz and

When the VP of Sales closes a deal, no one thanks Salesforce. When Marketing lands a big campaign, no one applauds Google Ads. We don’t reward executives for the tools they use. We reward them for judgment, taste, and experience. For senior leaders, this isn't changing. The

How will they amortize LLMs? By selling your deeply personal data to advertisers (including political ones, and even to government agencies) by microtargeting you, and perhaps by fine-tuning your chatbots to advertiser desires, in order to subtly influence you. 24x7

So, when does a trail of research on "reasoning" helping out the economics (which use of the scarce resource, which population group gets to benefit from that use) become orthogonal to a discussion on AI Alignment (harmless, honest, helpful)/AI Safety/Responsible AI/Ethical AI?

👇🏾 quote about "hype" is 🔥 "Five-year-olds playing soccer—they all run to the ball. Nothing else is important."

I do not fear the rise of super intelligence. I do, however, fear the rapacious power of the individuals and companies who seek to build, own, and control such artifacts.

The Ultimate Goalpost Shift Old Days: AI was supposed to be as reliable as a calculator, and as dominant over humans as Deep Thought. New Days: Uneducated nonexperts make lots of mistakes. AI makes mistakes. Singularity achieved!

OpenAI’s latest model challenged the 1979 Atari 2600 chess engine—and lost. Enthusiast Robert Caruso reported that ChatGPT confused rooks with bishops, bungled basic tactics, and ended up conceding on beginner mode after a 90‑minute struggle. It’s a hilarious reminder that

The equal heighted couple wearing gender neutral attires in 2nd century ce going for some prayer. The sculpture was reported stolen and smuggled by a prominwnt dealer in USA Mashberg Dec. 21, 2016 Prominent New York antiquities dealer Nancy Wiener was arrested Wednesday for

Anybody tried leveraging Network Functions Virtualization in Vibe mode, in Vibe Code deployment architecture?

Nice roundup

Is this even protecting the consumers? RBI Says ReserveBankOfIndia

Still using REST or JDBC to serve data? 🐢 You’re slowing things down. It’s like putting a Ferrari engine in a horse-drawn carriage. 🚗🐎 Arrow Flight SQL streams columnar data at 20+ Gb/s/core. Serve data as fast as you compute it, by Thomas McGeehan: motherduck.com/blog/flight-sq…

Wonder what this did to the growth, development and learning of babies, toddlers & children.

The ABCD is all grown up 🤷🏻

All of these changed the way I look at the world.

A 14 day offline course on Calculus as Ganita (calculus without limits and w/o real numbers), in NIE, Mysore, see poster (pic1) and brochure (pics2,3). Scan qr codes for course contents. Next iteration in Aug is for IIT students only, not open to general public.

This link to my reply to Ilya Sutskever on conscious AI was on the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) daily feed , calling it ‘favoring Team Human’. Thanks ASA. officechai.com/ai/ilya-sutske…

Anybody else found this happening with old Tamil songs? You need to ask Alexa to "play pullanguzhal kodutha" if you want to listen to TMS. If you by chance ask it to "play pullanguzhal kodutha moongilgale" it'll play some nonsense. Yesterday was another such TMS song.

There's a funny old anecdote from my FIL's younger bro. He didn't happen to have stock of Nirma in his shop but had some other brand that had a woman in a ghagra on the cover. Customer insisted on the packet with girl in frock. He asked how long will she be a little girl?