I’m completely aligned with the small majority in India on whether Regulation of AI is needed. … the majority of people in all countries view AI regulation as a necessity. India is the exception, where just under half (48%) agree regulation is needed. Source: Trust, attitudes and use of artificial intelligence - a fascinating report surveying ~1,000 people in every country. https://mbs.edu/-/media/PDF/Research/Trust_in_AI_Report.pdf LinkedIn
It’s good to know the IP address and password for remote control of the displays at the Hyderabad Airport. Thank you for the most interesting display I have seen in an airport! LinkedIn
Me: What is the capital of France? Qwen3-30b-a3b: <think> Okay, so I need to figure out what the capital of France is. Let me start by recalling what I know about countries and their capitals. France is a country in Europe, right? I think it’s known for things like the Eiffel Tower, Paris, and maybe some famous foods like croissants or wine. Wait, but the question is specifically asking for the capital. The capital of a country is usually the city where the government is based. So, for example, the capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. So applying that logic to France, I need to think about which city is the seat of the French government. ...
People still write? LinkedIn
This is my decision tree for which model to use on #ChatGPT right now. O𝟯: Use by **default. O**𝟰-mini-high: Use when **coding. GPT** 𝟰o: Use for a quick response or to create image. LinkedIn
What percentage of seats does the #Singapore People’s Action Party win? Normally, this is a 2-hour programmatic data-scraping + data visualization exercise, ideal for a data journalism class. Now, it’s a 2-minute question to O3-Mini-High. Search online for the historical results of all the Singapore elections and show me a table and chart of the number and percentage of the seats won by People’s Action Party. Chat link: https://chatgpt.com/share/6808314c-542c-800c-843e-4d53ff57768d It “manually” read the Wikipedia page for each election, then wrote a Python script to draw the chart. ...
With the Gemini 2.5 Flash release, Google envelopes the entire cost-quality frontier of LLMs. In other words, at any cost or quality level, today, the best model to use according to the LM Arena score is a Gemini model. Results for O3, O4 Mini, and GPT 4.1 are not yet on LM Arena. But until then, #Google dominates. Nice work! Link: https://sanand0.github.io/llmpricing/ LinkedIn
I’m at an open Hyderabad meet-up, Thu 20 Mar 4 pm. “Analyzing data with AI agents”." It’s a public event by Hasgeek. Venue: Castlight Health, Sattva Knowledge Park. We know LLMs suck at number crunching but are good with code. I’ll share what we’ve learnt by getting it to write code to analyze data instead. Less lecturing, more interactive Q&A and demos in a cozy group. Mostly for analysts, data scientists, and programmers. Not so much for LLM researchers or managers. ...
For a second, I thought I’d been hacked. If you search for “Geocities” on Google, it shows the results in a Comic Sans font. https://www.google.com/search?q=geocities Turns out it’s an easter egg by Google that’s about 8 months old. Are there any Geocities homesteaders here? Or is LinkedIn too new for the old-timers? LinkedIn
Wow. Every SINGLE person in the audience at this (Healthcare Education, Singapore) conference was on a laptop, tablet, or mobile. Some on multiple devices. I guess this is the new model of learning and listening. The only people who were NOT on a device were on stage. The speakers. I guess it’s up to me to fix that 🙂 LinkedIn
Will people accept AI performance evaluations? Anish Agarwal triggered this question a few weeks ago, mentioning that it’s hard for people to feel evaluated by AI. But I believe LLMs are great for evaluation. We need to get comfortable AND familiar with them. So I’m introducing a project next week for my students: USE AN LLM to automatically analyze data. Given a dataset, write a program that will use LLMs to create an analysis report. CONVINCE IT to give you marks. Write the code and report in a way that the LLM will reward you. Here’s the project: https://github.com/sanand0/tools-in-data-science-public/blob/tds-2023-t3-project2-wip/project-2-automated-analysis.md ...
About 7 years ago, Richie Lionell and Ramya Mylavarapu and a few others created Comicgen - an automated comic generation app personified by Dee ComicGen and Dey ComicGen Ever since, we’d been exploring whether AI could replace it, and help non-designers draw comics. Today, that became a reality for me with Recraft.ai. Here is a picture of the original Dee. And a picture of the Dee crafted by Recraft with the prompt: ...
Wow, arithmetic is potentially inappropriate! https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/home?region=us-east-1#/text-generation-playground?mode=text&modelId=amazon.titan-text-lite-v1 LinkedIn
“Screen-scraping” takes on a more literal meaning." Jaidev Deshpande and I scrolled through Twitter, recording the screen at 1 frame per second, and passed the video to Gemini 1.5 Flash 8b to extract all the tweets. It worked well, and cost 0.04 cents. Given its incredibly low image token count (~250 tokens / image) and cost (7.5 cents per million tokens), you can process 24 HOURS of video for just $1.62. ...
Damn! LinkedIn
Are scientific discoveries more a product of the person or their time? It’s usually their time, but in my conversation with ChatGPT, I found four that were mostly person-driven: Newton’s laws of gravitation Einstein’s general relativity I knew these. Both were far ahead of their times. In contrast, Newton’s laws of motion and Einstein’s special relativity weren’t. McClintock’s discovery of Transposable Elements: genes that can turn physical characteristics on and off. Her work was dismissed for decades. Mullis’ invention of the PCR that makes billions of DNA copies rapidly. Other scientists were using very different methods. I didn’t know these. Both are in biology - a rapidly advancing field. ...
How can non-programmers build apps? Claude.ai, Replit.com, Bolt.new, V0.dev, Pythagora.ai and a few other tools write and deploy code just based on a prompt. You should try them out. But how do you build the skill? Is there a tutorial?" I’m often asked. No, I can’t find a tutorial, but here is my suggestion. You probably can’t guess what’s easy or hard. e.g. “Take my picture in black & white” is FAR easier than “When’s the next lunar eclipse? ...
Arun Tangirala and I webinared on “AI in Education” yesterday." “(“Webinared” is not a word. But “verbing weirds language”.)” Mid-way, Jose Swan from the audience asked, “Can you summarise this session using an AI? There are SEVERAL tools you can use to summarize talks. Whisper for transcription, FFMpeg for keyframe extraction, #NotebookLM for podcast generation, text-embedding-3-small for topic modelling, and of course, any regular LLM include #ChatGPT for summarization or translation. ...
Bad Apple in #Minecraft? Turns out it can be done. At 20 fps on the original resolution (512x384). This is the most mind-blowing piece of engineering I’ve seen in some time! https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/we-built-the-best-bad-apple-in-minecraft/ LinkedIn
Which is the most neurotic / emotional #LLM? I ran the Big 5 personality test on a bunch of LLMs (for my TEDx MDI Gurgaon talk in August.) Here are the results. https://sanand0.github.io/llmpersonality/ Claude 3 Haiku and Llama 3 8b consider themselves the most emotional models. In fact, some of Llama 3 8b’s quotes are hilarious: Get stressed out easily. - 4. Moderately Accurate (I can get stressed, but I’m working on managing my stress levels) ...