Reposted by Vishal Sikkaamerica.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Murmuration ❤️ #birds 1223511729
Reposted by Vishal SikkaJonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Good morning Murmuration and Blue Sky 29098681537
Reposted by Vishal SikkaMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Anybody remember this from 2017? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Plus ça change, plus c'est la même BS.theatlantic.comAn Artificial Intelligence Developed Its Own Non-Human LanguageWhen Facebook trained chatbots to negotiate with one another, the bots made up their own way of communicating. 2433
Reposted by Vishal SikkaCatherine @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social · 10/11/2025BLACK 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... 804093554
Vishal Sikka @vsikka.bsky.social · 16/09/2025RIP 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 89 020
Reposted by Vishal SikkaTim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social · 11/09/2025On 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 25314
Reposted by Vishal SikkaRodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Oh 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. 171
Reposted by Vishal SikkaMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 17/08/2025TIL that you can get Google's AI overview to say anything you want, just by asking. 825746
Reposted by Vishal SikkaJanelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 17/08/2025Image 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. 1228
Vishal Sikka @vsikka.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Beautiful words by the great Ted Chiang… @ted-chiang.bsky.social is that you out here, in your great silence in the blue skies? 050
Vishal Sikka @vsikka.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Looking 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 000
Reposted by Vishal SikkaMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Maybe Meta can hire the National Science Foundation. I hear there is some science expertise there, and they are short by $1B+ 1497
Reposted by Vishal SikkaMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 29/07/2025I'm thrilled to be part of this project with Ellie Pavlick, @geomblog.bsky.social and many others. 0344
Reposted by Vishal SikkaBenjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 07/06/2025That 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. 52177
Reposted by Vishal SikkaMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Tired: "BS" Wired: "Vibe citing" www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...nytimes.comWhite House Health Report Included Fake Citations 0457
Reposted by Vishal SikkaJanelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 13/04/20251. 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. 11978743580
Reposted by Vishal SikkaErik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn.bsky.social · 07/04/2025I'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...hai.stanford.eduThe 2025 AI Index Report | Stanford HAI 1204
Vishal Sikka @vsikka.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Beautiful first signs of spring. Winter, at last, is leaving… 010
Reposted by Vishal SikkaChristopher Manning @chrmanning.bsky.social · 03/03/2025In 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! 0262
Reposted by Vishal SikkaRodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 17/02/202510/10 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. 1203
Reposted by Vishal Sikka🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖˡᵉˢˢ ᵁˢᴬ @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Challenge: pick an invention(s) from this list and mention in random conversations that the inventor is a Black American. 551060326
Vishal Sikka @vsikka.bsky.social · 07/02/2025faroutmagazine.co.uk/hayao-miyaza... Well said @fchollet.bsky.social ! Here is the great Miyazaki’s take on the same topic…faroutmagazine.co.ukHayao Miyazaki on the use of AI: "I am utterly disgusted"Hayao Miyazaki was once shown an AI programme that can make animations. However, the Studio Ghibli legend responded with, "I am utterly disgusted." 000
Reposted by Vishal SikkaOmoju @omoju.bsky.social · 29/04/2016If @Infosys CEO, Vishal Sikka sings with AR Rahman, he would be the coolest ever!!! #InfosysConfluence 011
Reposted by Vishal SikkaKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.usaspending.govUSAspending.gov 14356283373
Reposted by Vishal SikkaLittle Green Space 🐝 @lgspace.bsky.social · 07/01/2025A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳 11994083449
Vishal Sikka @vsikka.bsky.social · 06/12/2024www.bbc.com/future/artic... In one of his last interviews, Dennett as always, dropping seriously good insights into our times...bbc.comDaniel Dennett: 'Why civilisation is more fragile than we realised'Before his recent death, the influential philosopher Daniel Dennett spoke to the BBC about why he saw new dangers from AI. 000
Vishal Sikka @vsikka.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Borges, and Stephenson, not to mention McLuhan, were all onto what's been going on... theconversation.com/an-83-year-o...theconversation.comAn 83-year-old short story by Borges portends a bleak future for the internetBorges imagined an endless library that contained every possible permutation of letters. The truth is out there, but it’s embedded among hordes of lies and gibberish. 010
Vishal Sikka @vsikka.bsky.social · 28/11/2024On this #thanksgiving, feeling very grateful to those on whose giant shoulders we stand, on whose kindness, love and energy we thrive, on whose support we depend. Those who are always there, who were there when it mattered, who go above and beyond. To my teachers, friends and family, thank you! 🙏❤️ 010
Vishal Sikka @vsikka.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Mood... music.apple.com/us/album/her...music.apple.comHero by Family of the Year on Apple MusicSong · 2012 · Duration 3:10 000
Reposted by Vishal SikkaJoseph C @jkhc.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Yes, it’s a composite of 7 images over the course of one night. Here’s a pic of the RAW files from that night. 111
Vishal Sikka @vsikka.bsky.social · 20/11/2024www.ft.com/content/8946.... Nice writeup by Yoshua Bengio in his (always) thoughtful way...ft.comAI can learn to think before it speaksAdvances in reasoning will lead to substantially improved capabilities in mathematics and science 000
Vishal Sikka @vsikka.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Marr's work was incredibly important. He left far too soon. Had he lived, his contributions would have been massive, no doubt. I still remember implementing his 2.5D sketches techniques as an undergrad... 010
Reposted by Vishal SikkaChristopher Manning @chrmanning.bsky.social · 18/11/2024I did an unscientific, uncontrolled experiment for #EMNLP2024—details in 🧵👇. I posted my conference & workshop papers to 5 socials. Clear results: Mastodon is near dead, Threads may have users but not my people, not giving up on X/Twitter yet, but Bluesky is worth investing in. 28710
Vishal Sikka @vsikka.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Loving reading the great Han Kang, this year's nobel laureate in literature. I hope she makes it here to the blue skies... #HanKang 000
Vishal Sikka @vsikka.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Thx Rodney, as always. I wonder what is worse? That people find it so difficult to grasp (no pun) that LLMs are, in essence, powerful regurgitation machines and so easy to manipulate into making (very dangerous) mistakes? Or that people knowingly misrepresent what LLMs can (and esp cannot) do? 020
Reposted by Vishal SikkaShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 11/10/2024No. Get out. You don’t say.jalopnik.comTesla's Beer-Serving Optimus Robot Was Controlled By A Human The Whole TimeOptimus's real capabilities remain human-controlled 1359
Vishal Sikka @vsikka.bsky.social · 15/11/2024My first day here and it feels like twitter back circa 2007/08... 000
Reposted by Vishal SikkaMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 14/11/2024For Science Magazine, I wrote about "The Metaphors of Artificial Intelligence". The way you conceptualize AI systems affects how you interact with them, do science on them, and create policy and apply laws to them. Hope you will check it out! www.science.org/doi/full/10....science.orgThe metaphors of artificial intelligenceA few months after ChatGPT was released, the neural network pioneer Terrence Sejnowski wrote about coming to grips with the shock of what large language models (LLMs) could do: “Something is beginning... 22442151
Vishal Sikka @vsikka.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Beautiful colors of autumn in dntn Los Altos. Winter may be coming but not today… 020
