Abhivardhan

A tragedy is unfolding at AllenAI. Fs in the chat

An AI-generated "Love Island" parody featuring fruit characters has gone viral, with its creator gaining over 3 million followers in March alone. Episodes average more than 5 million views, and viewers can suggest storylines.

OpenAI is shutting down its AI video slop-making platform Sora.

Thank you GNLU. More updates later.

Regardless of what official position that BRICS as an organization will take on this whole Iran conflict, I do not foresee this Indian presidency of BRICS to be productive (not that BRICS was that productive anyways)

Notice one thing here: Ather and Ola aren’t protected (not yet) like Tata Motors or M&M. They aren’t spoilt brats like our License Raj dhandos who do negligible R&D and innovation, only knowing how to spend money on JVs or capex to capture volume. In India, most R&D and innovation is happening at new-age startups or in sectors that wouldn’t survive or grow without it (i.e., the pharma sector). I understand why the Indian elite wants to protect License Raj cronies, as they fund their elections. However, I don’t understand why, in this day and age, a section of the Indian populace still wants to protect these cronies.

We’re saying goodbye to the Sora app. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing. We’ll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work. – The Sora Team

An MoU by Invest UP is a preliminary step before detailed due diligence and project evaluation gets done. The MoU with Puch AI is similarly an initiation of the process by Invest UP to explore potential in the AI sector. MoUs are non-binding on the State Government. Any further progress including any Government permission, approval or license is subject to detailed evaluation of prospective investors proposal . Any prospective investor falling short of the above will automatically have their MoU terminated. Uttar Pradesh remains committed to transparent, responsible, and future-focused development.

It's so easy to think you're untalented, maybe even dumb, when really you're just unpracticed on some prerequisite skills. Reminds me of the time I tutored a Real Analysis student who hadn't gotten much practice with proof-writing beforehand. She thought she was gonna fail the class. She thought she might just not be cut out for it. But we just shored up some of those missing proof foundations and then she came out with a well-deserved A. And then she took Fourier Analysis the following year and crushed it. Didn't even need my help. There is also a flipside: it's very easy to think you're a genius, when really you're just better-practiced on prerequisite skills than everyone around you. That's actually a great situation to be in, provided that you recognize why things are going so well for you -- but if you conclude that "geniuses like me don't need much practice," then, well, your advantage is short-lived. The moral of this story is that prerequisite knowledge is intellectual capital and can take you from academic rags to riches -- or from riches to rags, if you squander it.

If Bhagat Singh were alive, he would be against any form of Hindi imposition. After all, he was a comrade who opposed every kind of hegemony.

“If you try to focus on the heroism of a single hero, it will never be accepted. I think it would be better if the world itself were the hero, or if the worldview, not the individual, were the hero. I want to go to that world. That world is interesting. I prefer it that way.”