AI/Machine Learning, Bharat and Bhartiya IT Industry

[Amber G.]

x-post from Math dhaga:

^^^ The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is taking place this week in Bath, UK (originally scheduled for Kiev, Ukraine). The two 4.5-hour exams are on Tuesday and Wednesday, with results to follow in a few days. The closing ceremony is on July 21, 2024. As usual, I'm excited to review the problems this year. (As usual, will get to day's problems after the exam is over and students can share the problems).

Another very interesting aspect for me:

The 2024 IMO features a $10 million AIMO Prize for an AI to win an IMO gold medal, technical advised is Po-Shen Loh (prof at CMU - IMO gold medalist, known/mentored him (and his family - all *very* accomplished mathematicians) since he was in high-school ). Google Deep Mind and AlphaGeometry are participating, making this a thrilling math + AI showdown! It's exciting to see how the world's brightest high school students will fare against the latest AI systems.

Notably, even Terry Tao (Field Medalist and one of the top mathematician in the world) is enthusiastic about the integration of AI systems into research mathematics and is encouraging the community to embrace this disruption.

[Vayutuvan]

Po-Shen Loh is a silver medalist. Nevertheless an achievement at an early age.

(more in the Math thread ...)

[Amber G.]

Po-Shen Loh is a silver medalist. Nevertheless an achievement at an early age.

(more in the Math thread ...)

Let us not nitpick... smile. I know the Loh family quite well and may have confused him with his brother Po-Ru Loh (2 golds+silver - with whom I got confused) . He and his siblings - sister Po-Ling Loh all did extremely well in the math field, with many gold medals and top places in prestigious competitions). Po Shen Loh, as the oldest brother, was a 'hero' to his siblings. He has been the official leader/coach of the US IMO team for the last few years (a very prestigious post) and the whole family are among the well-known American mathematicians.

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I recently attended two very interesting AI lectures .. one from MIT high energy physics professor (and how they are using it) and second from Terry Tao (In math).. very impressive..

[Amber G.]

The AI Mathematical Olympiad Progress Prize 1 (first progress prize) has finished and congratulations to Team Numina on their win!

[sanman]

Will Indians get fleeced by an over-hyped AI bubble?

[sanman]

Elon Musk's Tesla is coming out with an upgraded newer generation of its Optimus humanoid robot, which will cost $20K:

[bala]

Artificial Intelligence & India ,Rajiv Malhotra, Bhavish Aggarwal & TVG Krishnamurthy at Ola HQ



Sage words by Rajiv Malhotra who is a modern day Bharat Rishi. We take modern western systems as the Gold Standard, but the data from India and its processing is done in Videshi lands. The bias and intolerance of non-western nations by US large companies like Google, Meta, Twitter, Amazon, Netflix, etc., is eating up any innovations elsewhere. Bharat is now #1 in software, #1 in chip design, #1 GCC (global competency centers) but sadly the India talent pool is working for other masters. Short term thinking no long term thinking, need to assert Bharat way of life and dictate terms and conditions. Hopefully there is slow realization, some like Bhavish Aggarwal of OLA are aware and making a step in a new direction. Hope others follow. We can give up on dudes like Narayan Murthy and other collaborators with BIF forces.

[sanman]

India needs to focus on ASICs -- that's where the future of AI is heading
They took over crypto mining because they're more energy-efficient, and will offer similar benefits for AI:

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/09/l ... ore-197809

[sanman]

This company Etched is developing the next big performance advantage in AI, and we need to pay attention to these things, because this is where the future is headed:

https://www.etched.com/

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/25/etched- ... in-ai.html

[Amber G.]

The program below was conceptualized and put together by Rajeev Srinivasa
He interviews Prof Vidyasagar (Distinguished Professor at IIT Hyderabad, SUTRA author) & Dr Abhishek Pur (radiation oncologist) on Generative AI, its current status and future prospects. I hope you enjoy it.
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[sanman]

The program below was conceptualized and put together by Rajeev Srinivasa
He interviews Prof Vidyasagar (Distinguished Professor at IIT Hyderabad, SUTRA author) & Dr Abhishek Pur (radiation oncologist) on Generative AI, its current status and future prospects. I hope you enjoy it.

I've been part of Rajeev's blog since he started it. Generative AI is about capturing the distribution of properties in the data you're training on, so that you can generate output based on that distribution. The latest and greatest approach is in Diffusion Models, which are able to accurately represent & recreate data across the full span of that distribution.

[Amber G.]

This year's Physics Nobel is for fundamentals for AI:
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 was awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.

[Vayutuvan]

I think this is going too far. Not deserving of a Nobel Prize in Physics.

[S_Madhukar]

Wasn’t Hinton warning about AGI when he resigned from Google ? Must be to soften his stance