Chief AI Scientist@Reliance Intelligence, Volunteer@iSPIRT. Visiting Faculty @ ISB, 2x founder, Prev: Google Research, Fashiate, Yahoo Labs. Views personal!

Bengaluru, India
Joined September 2008
A real hero from Kargil war. Seeing this video after a long long time and it still feels like his face is so familiar. Don't know what stuff folks like him are made of. Hope we are worthy of his sacrifice.
Still remember watching this interview in mesmerised silence. Capt. #VikramBatra, Param Vir Chakra. Right before the recapture of Pt.4875 on this day 21 years ago. India would change forever. He was only 24. 🇮🇳🔥
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No chance given what is allowed to happen at IIT Bombay. Do you think any sane researcher or academic will want to work here?
🚨 Today, I challenge young scientists and engineers to develop technologies that do not exist today for future in India. - Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
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Such statements won't suffice. Don't take any class till the allegations against the director and the professor are rescinded.
IIT Bombay Faculty Forum statement expressing "solidarity with our colleague" Prof Suryanarayan Doolla, who has been booked by police for alleged caste abuse and abetment to suicide after death of another BTech student at the campus
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All directors from all IITs, IIMs, IISc, NITs, IISERs, etc. must also resign in solidarity. We can't let this continue.
The director knows he has zero backing from the government and being smart by moving on We set the template with the CJP goons
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First of all, we need to ban these Humanities departments from IITs.
The IIT Bombay sub on Reddit has exploded in anger since yesterday calling the p They’re now blaming humanities students for starting the protest Credit goes to the experts in govt who thought introducing humanities in IITs was a good idea
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This is gut wrenching - This is so disappointing to see our professors being treated this way. For what? We now support cheating in exams? Where have we come? Dumbness galore!
Breaking news: IIT Bombay director Prof. Kedare announced in front of protesting students that he will resign on Monday, i.e., 21st September. One student says "resign kroge ?" , Prof says- "Hnn Monday ko krunga" , other student says "record me lelo saare" IIT students man .
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Pls stop JNU-fication of IITs and other institutions which still work 🙏 These professors are our idols - they are no less than soldiers. They sacrifice their lives to teach us 🙏
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In complete agreement with this 🙏
Ideally every professors from each IITs should boycott teaching from tomorrow. That’s the only thing our political class understands.
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Totally avoidable debate and unnecessary distraction. Clearly someone benefiting from this, not the citizens. It was anyway indirectly being funded by taxpayers money - why change. It's not like citizens are asking you for how their money is being spent. 🤦
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Why do I feel that this is all about PhonePe's IPO? Without this change, how on earth can PhonePe be profitable in real terms? Please talk me out of it.
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Isn't it obvious this this change will bring down the volumes for Phonepe and others? So why are they defending it? What am I missing?
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Forget about anything else let's create more UPI apps and give back half the MDR as cashback to the businesses that are most affected? Spoil the party of those who maliciously influenced this decision. RBI must encourage more players. Let free market win 🙏
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For once, can they ask their own chatbots to validate whatever they are saying, whether they are prone to becoming a laughing stock? 🤦
JUST IN: Anthropic says they’re highly profitable if you take out some of their biggest expenses.
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The models of today are not too smart. In fact, the problem is that they are too stupid in the face of ambiguity. So what one needs is safety and guardrails to not allow them to do stupid things, rather than worrying about them being of superhuman intelligence.
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Francois is spot on here. I think concentration of anything is bad, and definitely a technology like this, whether it is scary or not, any level of extreme concentration is bad. The solution is easy: just open-source it as much as possible. That's it.
One of the most worrying risks linked to frontier AI is extreme power concentration. The only way to avoid extreme power concentration is to ensure we have multiple independent providers of frontier AI models, including open-source options.
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I actually love the consistency with which Dario has been at it forever. 😜
2019: “GPT2 is groundbreaking in two ways. One is its size, says Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s research director. The models “were 12 times bigger, and the dataset was 15 times bigger and much broader” than the previous state-of-the-art AI model” theguardian.com/technology/2…
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आपको और आपके सभी परिजनों को श्री गणेश चतुर्थी के मंगल अवसर की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं।
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Anthropic and OpenAI are not even public companies yet that they need investors' permission to slow down. Dude, just go ahead and slow down. From my vantage point, it is nothing but asking for regulatory checks on open source.
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Exactly my point. It's all in your hands. You can slow down. That may put pressure on others to slow down too, instead of scaring the whole universe with half-transparent things.
If @DarioAmodei wants to slow down Anthropic that’s his choice — do it today! If he wants to lobby other frontier models to do the same, that’s fine as well — he did that today! However, don’t go crying to the government and beg them to slow down open source models — has he been doing that behind the scenes?
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I just hope that AI doomerism stays away from India. The only thing that matters to us is that we have to get our act together as far as AI innovation is concerned. We cannot afford to be an AI colony. I hope we don't get sidelined by any other narrative. 🙏
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Given there is so much interest on this topic, how about we do a X's space sometime this weekend? If there are enough takers. We may have different takes on the situation, and some of us may be more positive than others, but clearly all of us want the same outcome for India.
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