Arvind Melwani

[Davide Maria De Luca @DM_Deluca]

Italy, mixing up India and America since 1492

[Arvind Melwani @arvindm]

Our Inadequate Education System | Devan Melwani | TEDxMountainViewHigh... https://t.co/AD0pA9KP3T via @YouTube

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Once AI systems become more intelligent than humans, humans we will *still* be the "apex species."

Equating intelligence with dominance is the main fallacy of the whole debate about AI existential risk.
It's just wrong.
Even *within* the human species It's wrong: it's *not* the smartest among us who dominate the others.
More importantly, it's not the smartest among us who *want* to dominate others and who set the agenda.

We are subservient to our drives, built into us by evolution.
Because evolution made us a social species with a hierarchical social structure, some of us have a drive to dominate, and others not so much.
But that drive has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence: chimpanzees, baboons, and wolves have similar drives.
Orangutans do not because they are not a social species. And they are pretty darn smart.

AI systems will become more intelligent than humans, but they will still be subservient to us.
They same way the members of the staff of politicians or business leaders are often smarter than their leader.
But their leader still calls the shot, and most staff members have no desire to take their place.

We will design AI to be like the supersmart-but-non-dominating staff member.

The "apex species" is not the smartest but the one that sets the overall agenda.
That will be us.

[Arvind Melwani @arvindm]

@kylascan Except nobody gives anybody the credit ;)

[Arvind Melwani @arvindm]

@loridroste Thank you council Member Taplin - we appreciate you taking steps to make Berkeley safer!

[Arvind Melwani @arvindm]

@SahajKohli I grew up in Taiwan till I came to the US to study. I identify as Sindhi first, our unique interpretation of Hinduism (more Sikh than Hindu), language, food and culture is unfortunately in decline as it cannot survive in the diaspora...

[Arvind Melwani @arvindm]

@SahajKohli My parents were born in Hyderabad, Sindh. During partition my father’s side moved to Shillong, Meghalya and my mom’s side to Colombo, Sri Lanka. Due to ethnic violence in the late 70s/early 80s we moved from Shillong to Taiwan with the support of family.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Your thoughts become your words.
Your words become your behavior.
Your behavior becomes your habits.
Your habits become your values.
Your values become your destiny.

—Mahatma Gandhi

[Arvind Melwani @arvindm]

@Jacquiecharles @opcofamerica @jayhweaver @mawilner @DelgadoAntonioM Compliment!

[Arvind Melwani @arvindm]

@JetBlue

[Arvind Melwani @arvindm]

New acronyms recently minted:
FTX = F**k This X*hit
SBF = Some Body F**ked
😂🤣

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

Has anyone explained to Herschel Walker that “run-off” doesn’t mean what he did to his kids?

[Maarten Boute @mboute]

6 weeks into the crisis: fuel terminals still blocked, schools closed, black market gas price rising, insecurity situation degrading (increase in kidnappings), oxygen bottlers out of stock, hospitals still struggling to keep open, over 1700 suspected Cholera cases reported #Haiti

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

He gets my vote.

[Arvind Melwani @arvindm]

@PNCBank_Help Trying to get my tax documents and cannot get them through your website. I cant even send secure message through even though I am logged in. What is the easiest way to get tax docs ?

[ᗯIᒪᒪIᗩᗰ @WilliamA_33]

100 year old veteran break down crying

"This is not the country we fought for"

[Arvind Melwani @arvindm]

@asymmetricinfo @elonmusk plans to make Twitter intergalatic :-). Think of the Total Addressable Market....

[Arvind Melwani @arvindm]

@FlySWISS trying to call in regarding my trip. Have been on hold for over 45 minutes - what is the fastest way to contact you in the US ?

[Arvind Melwani @arvindm]

@Budget Thanks!