Chitta Baral

@AmericanAir Delta and United have 3 hubs in the West. The much smaller SLC has direct Delta flights to/from Seoul, LHR and Paris. AA has only two hubs in the west: LA and PHX. Yet, from PHX , AA has only the LHR flight. You are really missing out on properly using @PHXSkyHarbor

@BoshiWang2 I must be missing something. "A is B" does not imply "B is A". Let A = elephant and B = animal Elephant is an animal does not impl;y animals are elephants. Could you elaborate what you mean.

LLMs exhibit the Reversal Curse, a basic generalization failure where they struggle to learn reversible factual associations (e.g., "A is B" -> "B is A"). But why? Our new work uncovers that it's a symptom of the long-standing binding problem in AI, and shows that a model design based on JEPA can, for the first time to our knowledge, break the curse without side-stepping it through data augmentation or non-causal objectives. This skill also unlocks a new kind of parametric memory integration that enables models to tackle large-scale arithmetic reasoning problems via parametric forward-chaining, outperforming frontier LLMs (o3-mini-high, Gemini-2.0-Flash-Thinking) based on non-parametric memory and prolonged explicit reasoning.

I have not been posting much here. Will be more active at bsky.app/profile/cbaral… . Made my first post there about our recent research.

Created bsky.app/profile/cbaral… and will move there.

@soumyajitt @Naveen_Odisha If only he did this before and did this regularly, things would have been different.

Encouraging & Inspiring Talk From BJD President @Naveen_Odisha To Party Leaders At Naveen Nivas After he resigned as CM, Naveen Babu interacted with party candidates at his residence today to know about the reasons about the loss At the same time, the BJD supremo told them to keep working sincerely for the people which will enable them to make a comeback

@Trichiites What is the source of this? Thanks.

Top 15 fresh talent hotspots in India.

With Orca, we're excited about the potential of redefining the reasoning capabilities of smaller LLMs. We're still at the beginning phases of this intriguing journey, but our preliminary explorations have yielded encouraging results. 1/7

@AnilAgarwal_Ved That will bring in credibility. You can then proceed with Vedanta U and move the earlier established 1-2 institutes to the Vedanta University campus. Any way it will take 3-4 years to construct the 1st phase of Vedanta University. Why not establish 1-2 institutes right away?

@AnilAgarwal_Ved YIF - Young India Fellowship (ashoka.edu.in/academic-progr…) That brought credibility. If you are really serious, you should quickly establish a post-graduate institute or two, such as an "Institute of Artificial Intelligence".

Aaj se 1600 saal pehle, with universities like Nalanda and Takshashila, duniya bhar se students Bharat aate the. Lekin aaj har saal university ki padhai ke liye, Bharat se lakhon students duniya bhar mein jaate hain. In 2022-23 this number was 10 lakh students. One study has estimated that by 2024 around $80 billion of foreign exchange will be spent by Indian students studying overseas, not just for fees but also living costs which can be substantial. This pains me. My first trip outside India, several years ago, was to the US where I had gone in search of equipment and funding for my own business. I was amazed at the speed with which things happened, the quality of entrepreneurship and the grand vision that lay at the core of everything they did. I hadn’t experienced this in India. I realised that the difference lay in education system. Their 40 top universities lay great emphasis on R&D, entrepreneurship and on enabling students to study with flexibility, subjects that were close to their heart. These universities have strong connects with the world of policymaking and both feed into each other, creating excellence in both academia and government. Fundamentally this is why America is where it is today. I always carried this learning with me and when I was doing a business project in Odisha, I decided that I would create a world class university and education city in the state. While travelling between Puri, the home of the sacred Jagannath temple and Konark, the site of the historic Sun Temple, I saw the potential of creating this institution on the waterfront, like Harvard and Boston city. My vision was clear: to create a university that would be home to 1 lakh students and a city that would be home to 5 lakh people. While the university would have all courses available, there would be special focus on liberal arts, medicine and entrepreneurship. No meritorious student would be deprived of a place in university for lack of resources. 30% of students admitted would either be charged a subsidised fee or no fee at all. Although the government was willing to give the land free, I was determined to pay market price. I allocated $1 billion for the university from my own resources and committed to raising another $2 billion from other sources. We appointed renowned academic William Chace, President of Emory University in US to lead our university. Unfortunately, world doesn’t want India to become an education hub. Many NGOs got involved and took the matter to the Supreme Court. It has taken several years and the vision still remains a dream. Now with the reforms introduced by the Government, there is an opportunity to extend scope of the university to become a digital university. Many more students can benefit. I am hopeful that I will sit in the campus of this university in my lifetime and interact with the finest minds and best talent from all over India. What we can do in India, no one else can do. Kya aap mere saath hain?

@SCAI_ASU The initial deadlines for most of these positions are days away. NB: In our focus areas (AI, Robotics, Cybersecurity, etc.) we are quite highly ranked and we aim to improve it further as well as spread this to other areas. See csrankings.org/#/index?ai&vis… and fullcircle.asu.edu/features/asu-e…

The School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence is hiring for 13 open tenure and tenure-track faculty positions scai.engineering.asu.edu/news/join-our-…

@SCAI_ASU All the positions are at all ranks.

After AI2, Swaroop also had an excellent collaboration and mentor at Microsoft. Thank you @ellinoox .

Congratulations @Swarooprm7 for one of the Dean's dissertation award. Thankyou @allen_ai where Swaroop got some of his initial big ideas for his thesis. Thank you @DanielKhashabi @HannaHajishirzi @YejinChoinka and Peter Clark for collaborating with and mentoring Swraoop at AI2

Please apply to the new @trgokhale lab @umbccsee; he is a great mentor and collaborator!

@stuz5000 @GaryMarcus @izzi_cratic More generally, when asked a question it comes up with an answer. And then creates justifications which (i) may look correct but may have wrong facts which it does not realize as wrong. (ii) does not really justifies the answer. (iii) ....

@cbaral @GaryMarcus @izzi_cratic I don't think so. Even for yes/no questions, explanations are often provided in detail. It actually often seems very cautious by providing qualifications to answers. Yes... but also. I hear that 'yes ... and ...' is the secret to improvision though.

#ChatGPT - finally a wrong answer. 🍼👶 It's totally unable to reason about basic physics. Toss it in the trash. @GaryMarcus was right all along.

@GaryMarcus @izzi_cratic @stuz5000 It seems like when it realizes that it is a yes/no question, it picks one answer, and then finds ways to justify it. It does not seem to have a good way figure out if some parts of its justification are not correct.

@izzi_cratic @stuz5000 It’s stochastic, context-sensitive, and unreliable

Happy to be part of this team.

GPT-3 was better initially, but did not do well as I continued my exchanges.