Kinda interesting that Wolfram Alpha could pass a calculus exam when I was in college and no one had this kind of reaction.

Re-sharing the tweet from early December because everyone is discussing ChatGPT now.

"Of the 1.6 million women industrial workers across India, 43 percent were working in the factories of Tamil Nadu alone."🤯😲🤯 Don't miss this deeply insightful piece on women in India's industrial workforce: ceda.ashoka.edu.in/how-many-women…

Lol, well played🤣

Generative models and P vs. NP: A clickbaity thread 🧵 An important point that seems missing (as far as I've seen) in the debate over LLM "correctness" / "usefulness": generative models are most useful precisely in situations where creation is hard, but verification is easy. 1/N

Thanks to India in Pixels by Ashris ⚡️ and Vishal Chaturvedi 🇮🇳 Computed the per-capita GST collection to provide how much consumption population in each state does. An alternative indicator of income and wealth. (All figures in Rs)

I would like to thank the University of Pittsburgh for being the most loving and the most supporting academic community during my trying year in Ukraine. My sabbatical is over and so Pitt has given my leave for the next year.

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Top 10 cities of India from 2018 to 2021 by the percentage of credit card transactions made that are contactless

Funny exchange after a public lecture: Lady: I'm using ChatGPT to produce horoscopes. Me: perfect application for a writing assistant that makes stuff up. Lady: hahaha, I agree!

👀Two early papers find the effects of generative AI on knowledge work are completely unprecedented in modern history Separate studies of both writers and programmers find 50% increases in productivity with AI, and higher performance and satisfaction. And this is just the start.

Social media platforms are providing a market place for a nexus of ghost writers, fixers & peer reviewers to get bogus research papers published in Scopus-indexed journals…. Watch ThePrint video by Not A Scientist to know more about the issue: youtube.com/shorts/jOecSnN…

Fun fact, the University of Toronto, which is has more undergrads enrolled than the entire Ivy League. UBC and Waterloo combined would also surpass the Ivies. It's the big reason why university applications aren't so wild here. The best universities aren't as exclusive.

India’s 🇮🇳 exports are booming, both goods and services 📈 Cc: Tejeshwi Sharma 🇮🇳 Amit Paranjape Rajeev Mantri Kanchan Gupta 🇮🇳

Heard a good one today. "What makes economics unique is that two people can share the Nobel prize for saying opposite things."

Open source AI foundation models will wipe out closed and proprietary AI models for the same reason Wikipedia wiped out generalist commercial encyclopedia: crowd-sourced human contributions to open platforms can cater to a high diversity of interests, cultures, and languages.

This is such a great chart for showing off how good economists have gotten at stabilizing the economy.

For most companies, hiring more people is strictly better. However, this is often not true in AI research. AI research is often bottlenecked by compute, and when this is the case, hiring more researchers can be counter-productive. I remember back at Google Brain, my manager once