The last decade has been a pivotal one in the AI revolution 🤖 Cc: Yann LeCun Robert Scoble Erik Brynjolfsson Andrew McAfee 🇺🇦 Paul Graham David Sacks

"Dramatic scenarios of AI destroying the world distract from the more mundane but far more likely risks posed by the technology." What did Tony Zador and Yann LeCun think about the AI taking over the world almost 4 years ago? 🧵

PhD students, don't worry. Technologies, trends, and even whole fields come and go. A PhD makes you an expert in a field but, more importantly, teaches you how to become an expert. Once you know that you can learn anything, you can adapt to major disruptions in your field.

GDP explains almost 70% of pessimism toward AI. But perhaps not in the direction you think. Stanford HAI has come out with the excellent annual AI Index aiindex.stanford.edu/report/. It referenced an IPSOS Global Survey from 2022 on positive/negative expectations from AI.

Today we're releasing the Segment Anything Model (SAM) — a step toward the first foundation model for image segmentation. SAM is capable of one-click segmentation of any object from any photo or video + zero-shot transfer to other segmentation tasks ➡️ bit.ly/433YuBI

Yann LeCun and I have thought a lot about the proposed 6 month AI pause, and plan to chat about it on Friday - the questions it raises for AI and its impact on developers and companies. Please join Yann LeCun and me for the conversation! RSVP here: 6monthAIpause.eventbrite.com

Why does generative AI struggle with hands? It is not a mystical Bermuda Triangle in the latent space. There're compelling reasons: 1. Data size (duh). Face pics are much more common than hand pics. Even when the whole body is shown, hands tend to occupy much smaller pixel real

We’re proud to announce that DeepMind and the Brain team from Google Research will become a new unit: 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗱. Together, we'll accelerate progress towards a world where AI can help solve the biggest challenges facing humanity. → dpmd.ai/google-deepmind

IIT Roorkee has emerged at Rank #5 in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) India Rankings : Engineering for 2023. IIT Roorkee's rank has climbed up and is among the top 5 Institutes. IIT Roorkee Director, IIT Roorkee Ministry of Education Startup India DSTIndia IIT Roorkee Alumni Association

Thank you for the insightful conversation Sam Altman. The potential of AI in enhancing India’s tech ecosystem is indeed vast and that too among the youth in particular. We welcome all collaborations that can accelerate our digital transformation for empowering our citizens.

BITS Pilani does it again. This time with an innovation in the #PhD programmes. The question we asked ourselves is, why should all PhD programmes in the country be to produce university #professors? So we devised a new PhD Programme. A #PhD Programme for the #startup track,

Recently delivered two talks on Bias and Fairness in AIML in FDP on Application of AI in Healthcare and FDP on Scientific Computing & Machine Learning in VIT Vellore. Thanks to CBCMT, VIT Vellore & Dept. of Maths, SAS, VIT Vellore for this opportunity.

I have heard this first hand during my visit to all the top AI companies in the US last week as part of BITS Pilani #alumni connect. AI is writing any where from 25% to 50% of code. They all said, all new positions need to be justified based on what AI can't do. With AI

Delivered a talk on Bias and Fairness in AI in the event “ML 301: The Ethics of AI” organised by IET, VIT Chapter.

#CabinetDecisions Historic decision today for private sector industries and startups by the Cabinet !! The Union Cabinet, under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji Narendra Modi, has approved the Research Development & Innovation (RDI) Scheme with ₹1 lakh

📢 Convergence Research Centres of Excellence (CoE) #ANRFIndia invites proposals for CoE bridging #SocialSciences, #Humanities with Science & Technology to address complex societal challenges 🗓️Application Period: 14 Jul - 29 Aug 2025 🔗Visit: anrfonline.in/ANRF/coe_anrf?…

Great initiative Google India

Submission Link: editorialmanager.com/sncs/default.a… Submission Guidelines: link.springer.com/journal/42979/…. Conference Link: vit.ac.in/conference/ica… #ICADT2025 #AI #DigitalTransformation #EdgeComputing #QuantumComputing #FederatedLearning #Springer #VIT