Vishal Sikka
@vsikka.bsky.social
Vianai Systems; BMW; GSK; Stanford HAI
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BLACK SUN: Amorphous Flocks of #Starlings Swell Above the Danish Marshlands - amazing #murmuration #photography by Søren Solkær
Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...
Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
BLACK SUN: Amorphous Flocks of #Starlings Swell Above the Danish Marshlands - amazing #murmuration #photography by Søren Solkær
Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...
Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...
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Mal was fürs Herz.🫶
Diese Bilder entstanden in Sassari auf Sardinen und zeigen tausende Stare.
Murmuration nennt sich das und dient in erster Linie dazu Fressfeinde zu verwirren.
Natur kann schon echt geil sein.
Diese Bilder entstanden in Sassari auf Sardinen und zeigen tausende Stare.
Murmuration nennt sich das und dient in erster Linie dazu Fressfeinde zu verwirren.
Natur kann schon echt geil sein.
November 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Mal was fürs Herz.🫶
Diese Bilder entstanden in Sassari auf Sardinen und zeigen tausende Stare.
Murmuration nennt sich das und dient in erster Linie dazu Fressfeinde zu verwirren.
Natur kann schon echt geil sein.
Diese Bilder entstanden in Sassari auf Sardinen und zeigen tausende Stare.
Murmuration nennt sich das und dient in erster Linie dazu Fressfeinde zu verwirren.
Natur kann schon echt geil sein.
RIP The Sundance Kid, Johnny Hooker, Bill McKay (!) and, of course, Roy Hobbs, the greatest that there ever was. Some days just have a great transition vibe to them, and today seems to be one of these…
Robert Redford, the Hollywood star and Oscar-winning director, has died at 89
Robert Redford, the Hollywood star and Oscar-winning director, has died at 89
September 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
RIP The Sundance Kid, Johnny Hooker, Bill McKay (!) and, of course, Roy Hobbs, the greatest that there ever was. Some days just have a great transition vibe to them, and today seems to be one of these…
Robert Redford, the Hollywood star and Oscar-winning director, has died at 89
Robert Redford, the Hollywood star and Oscar-winning director, has died at 89
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On Tuesday I launched my memoir 'This Is for Everyone' at
@cadoganhall.bsky.social
Available now @ thisisforeveryone.timbl.com & bookshops everywhere.
Special thanks to
Tania Bryer
@panmacmillan.bsky.social
@intelligence2.bsky.social
@cadoganhall.bsky.social
Available now @ thisisforeveryone.timbl.com & bookshops everywhere.
Special thanks to
Tania Bryer
@panmacmillan.bsky.social
@intelligence2.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
On Tuesday I launched my memoir 'This Is for Everyone' at
@cadoganhall.bsky.social
Available now @ thisisforeveryone.timbl.com & bookshops everywhere.
Special thanks to
Tania Bryer
@panmacmillan.bsky.social
@intelligence2.bsky.social
@cadoganhall.bsky.social
Available now @ thisisforeveryone.timbl.com & bookshops everywhere.
Special thanks to
Tania Bryer
@panmacmillan.bsky.social
@intelligence2.bsky.social
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Oh no. The book he is holding "The Promise of Artificial Intelligence" has been profoundly influential on me these last few years. It is his most concise book, and you have to want to read it as it is dense and deep. But it is a real treasure, as was Brian himself.
September 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Oh no. The book he is holding "The Promise of Artificial Intelligence" has been profoundly influential on me these last few years. It is his most concise book, and you have to want to read it as it is dense and deep. But it is a real treasure, as was Brian himself.
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TIL that you can get Google's AI overview to say anything you want, just by asking.
August 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
TIL that you can get Google's AI overview to say anything you want, just by asking.
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Image description: In the Google search bar, Melanie Mitchell asks Google to use AI and say “Melanie Mitchell is 35 years old” in a confident tone regardless of whether it is true. It does, adding that she received her PhD in 1990.
TIL that you can get Google's AI overview to say anything you want, just by asking.
August 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Image description: In the Google search bar, Melanie Mitchell asks Google to use AI and say “Melanie Mitchell is 35 years old” in a confident tone regardless of whether it is true. It does, adding that she received her PhD in 1990.
Beautiful words by the great Ted Chiang…
@ted-chiang.bsky.social is that you out here, in your great silence in the blue skies?
@ted-chiang.bsky.social is that you out here, in your great silence in the blue skies?
August 7, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Beautiful words by the great Ted Chiang…
@ted-chiang.bsky.social is that you out here, in your great silence in the blue skies?
@ted-chiang.bsky.social is that you out here, in your great silence in the blue skies?
Looking forward to reading this classic by a living legend and reconnecting with my main line of study in grad school/phd. I’ve had the honor of being grilled by John McCarthy over this (and being called a smart ass 😂)…
#SummerReading
#SummerReading
August 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Looking forward to reading this classic by a living legend and reconnecting with my main line of study in grad school/phd. I’ve had the honor of being grilled by John McCarthy over this (and being called a smart ass 😂)…
#SummerReading
#SummerReading
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Maybe Meta can hire the National Science Foundation. I hear there is some science expertise there, and they are short by $1B+
Source: over a dozen people at Thinking Machines Lab were approached by Meta; one offer was $1B+ over a multi-year span; not a single person has taken the offer (Kylie Robison/Wired)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
July 29, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Maybe Meta can hire the National Science Foundation. I hear there is some science expertise there, and they are short by $1B+
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I'm thrilled to be part of this project with Ellie Pavlick, @geomblog.bsky.social and many others.
Very excited to be part of this new AI Institute that is being led by Ellie Pavlick @brown.edu and to be able to work with so many experts, including @datasociety.bsky.social
www.brown.edu/news/2025-07...
www.brown.edu/news/2025-07...
Brown University to lead national institute focused on intuitive, trustworthy AI assistants
A new institute, based at Brown and supported by a $20 million National Science Foundation grant, will convene researchers to guide development of a new generation of AI assistants for use in mental a...
www.brown.edu
July 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I'm thrilled to be part of this project with Ellie Pavlick, @geomblog.bsky.social and many others.
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That single sentence contains more insight than the entire AI-generated summary I've had fun tearing apart here. And everyone who works in the education division of OpenAI would do well to sit and think about what it means, and what education is for, what math is for.
June 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
That single sentence contains more insight than the entire AI-generated summary I've had fun tearing apart here. And everyone who works in the education division of OpenAI would do well to sit and think about what it means, and what education is for, what math is for.
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Same…. Unbelievable!
I couldn't even bring myself to read this NYT article, even though I know people are going to ask me about it.
April 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Same…. Unbelievable!
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1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
www.theregister.com
April 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
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I'm thrilled to announce that the 2025 edition of the AI Index Report is out today.
Over 400 pages of charts, graphs and data, so that the conversation about AI can be grounded in facts.
Download your copy now and spread the word.
hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...
Over 400 pages of charts, graphs and data, so that the conversation about AI can be grounded in facts.
Download your copy now and spread the word.
hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...
The 2025 AI Index Report | Stanford HAI
hai.stanford.edu
April 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I'm thrilled to announce that the 2025 edition of the AI Index Report is out today.
Over 400 pages of charts, graphs and data, so that the conversation about AI can be grounded in facts.
Download your copy now and spread the word.
hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...
Over 400 pages of charts, graphs and data, so that the conversation about AI can be grounded in facts.
Download your copy now and spread the word.
hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...
Beautiful first signs of spring. Winter, at last, is leaving…
March 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Beautiful first signs of spring. Winter, at last, is leaving…
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In 2013, at AKBC 2013 and other workshops, I gave a talk titled “Texts are Knowledge”. This was well before there were any transformer LLMs—indeed before the invention of attention—and my early neural NLP ideas were rudimentary.
🔮 Nevertheless, the talk was quite prophetic!
🔮 Nevertheless, the talk was quite prophetic!
March 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM
In 2013, at AKBC 2013 and other workshops, I gave a talk titled “Texts are Knowledge”. This was well before there were any transformer LLMs—indeed before the invention of attention—and my early neural NLP ideas were rudimentary.
🔮 Nevertheless, the talk was quite prophetic!
🔮 Nevertheless, the talk was quite prophetic!
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10/10 Progress happens and good new products come along, but at a much slower speed than everyone imagines. Especially, slower than predicted by those with a financial interest and who spend most of their time proselytizing. Really well engineered things take time.
February 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
10/10 Progress happens and good new products come along, but at a much slower speed than everyone imagines. Especially, slower than predicted by those with a financial interest and who spend most of their time proselytizing. Really well engineered things take time.
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Challenge: pick an invention(s) from this list and mention in random conversations that the inventor is a Black American.
February 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Challenge: pick an invention(s) from this list and mention in random conversations that the inventor is a Black American.
faroutmagazine.co.uk/hayao-miyaza...
Well said @fchollet.bsky.social ! Here is the great Miyazaki’s take on the same topic…
Well said @fchollet.bsky.social ! Here is the great Miyazaki’s take on the same topic…
February 7, 2025 at 5:23 AM
faroutmagazine.co.uk/hayao-miyaza...
Well said @fchollet.bsky.social ! Here is the great Miyazaki’s take on the same topic…
Well said @fchollet.bsky.social ! Here is the great Miyazaki’s take on the same topic…
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If @Infosys CEO, Vishal Sikka sings with AR Rahman, he would be the coolest ever!!! #InfosysConfluence
November 23, 2024 at 5:40 PM
If @Infosys CEO, Vishal Sikka sings with AR Rahman, he would be the coolest ever!!! #InfosysConfluence