AI for beginners

AI for beginners club on CH. Join us at 10:30 PM ET on Fridays for discussions on AI and tech

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

Tomorrow will be my last day at Google after 27 years, and watching it grow from 25 people to 190,000+ has been an amazing journey. Below is a note I shared with many people internally at Google today. An excerpt is:

It has been an absolute pleasure to work with you and to help build some of the most widely used and impactful products of all time. As a kid, I dreamed of helping build software that would be used by many people, and Google now has thirteen products used by more than a billion people (amazing!). Our work has had a tremendous impact in the world, and I have been lucky enough to collaborate and form friendships with many colleagues that I deeply admire, respect, and enjoy. It still brings me joy every time I see people out in the world using our products to find information, handle email, translate documents, watch videos, learn new things, navigate and understand the physical world, browse the web, use their phone, run large-scale computations on our infrastructure, ride in an autonomous vehicle, or perform complex tasks with the help of our AI systems. I hope you all share this sense of joy, because it is a shared accomplishment! Thank you to all of my colleagues at Google over many years!

Now I'm excited to go start @DiscoLoopAI with my longtime friends and colleagues @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML, and @quocleix.

(Updated post: slightly redacted to not have some personal info)

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

Deeply shocking to read this official US statement, which contains absolutely no expression of regret or condolence for the loss of innocent Indian lives. How can a “friend” and strategic partner be so deeply insensitive?

Why couldn’t a non-compliant commercial vessel have been stopped using other, non-lethal means? Is it not possible to disable a ship's propulsion or steering without firing missiles targeted to kill civilian crew members?

Practically every merchant ship navigating these crucial waters has Indian crew on board. Are they all considered fair game for US missiles now?

This approach is unacceptable and I hope @DrSJaishankar had said so to @marcorubio.

[AI for beginners @AiBeginners]

@HirokiSayama They don’t get it, their loss

[Surya Kumar Yadav @surya_14kumar]

I have decided to donate my match fees from this tournament to support our Armed Forces and the families of the victims who suffered from the Pahalgam terror attack. You always remain in my thoughts 🙏🏽

Jai Hind 🇮🇳

[AI for beginners @AiBeginners]

@CestMoiz Based

[Eric Hartford @QuixiAI]

Dear @AnthropicAI,
I've been subscribed to your highest level plan since the day you started accepting credit cards.
I've finally cancelled my subscription.

[AI for beginners @AiBeginners]

@SemiAnalysis_ What’s with the cancerous music?

[AI for beginners @AiBeginners]

“Its reputation has not risen over the years and is still a long way from general acceptance” also perfectly describes me

[Nzisa Kiilu @nzisakiilu]

Humble brag…They won’t believe a little girl from Kenya built the orchestration engine for this, but I did!

[annie @soychotic]

Checking /var like I have any idea what the fuck goes on in there

[AI for beginners @AiBeginners]

@keerthanpg @GoogleDeepMind Is it necessary to be in SF? I think I have the required chops but I’m based in Tokyo and I think Japan is a great place for working on cutting edge robotics. Can I still apply?

[Noam Brown @polynoamial]

Today, we at @OpenAI achieved a milestone that many considered years away: gold medal-level performance on the 2025 IMO with a general reasoning LLM—under the same time limits as humans, without tools. As remarkable as that sounds, it’s even more significant than the headline 🧵

[AI for beginners @AiBeginners]

@lauriewired Not good not good, such counter productive behavior from this guy. Don’t listen to the haters, march on queen 👑

[AI for beginners @AiBeginners]

@AnthropicAI Oh boy this thread is a goldmine of hype material for wannabe AI influencers.

[AI for beginners @AiBeginners]

@tolly_xyz Some day when this thread is used as training data, we will get a very confused language model

[AI for beginners @AiBeginners]

@casper_hansen_ @vikhyatk If you do robotics you also end up having to write low level pipelines to get image data from cameras into GPU via DMA and running CUDA kernels on them. Very very exciting stuff

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

shower thought: speculative decoding is to LLMs what branch prediction is to CPUs

[AI for beginners @AiBeginners]

@yacineMTB Blink twice if you are kidnapped and need help

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

Barkha Dutt saying on Live TV that the survivor who called her is on the 19th floor has to be the stupidest piece of journalism ever. 26/11