Mindaugas Eglinskas

At the intersection of artificial intelligence, food and art. CEO at PIXEVIA - AI for retail.

[Lithuanian MOD 🇱🇹 @Lithuanian_MoD]

🇱🇹 The Lithuanian Armed Forces are providing the conditions for testing new airspace security tech at General Silvestras Žukauskas Training Ground in Pabradė. Local companies trial their innovations, helping strengthen national security.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

To the best of my knowledge, the U.S. did not pay back our allies who fought alongside us in Afghanistan and Iraq & provided econ assistance too. I don't remember President Bush sending checks to the parents of Europeans who lost their loved ones fighting for OUR security.

[Mindaugas Eglinskas @MEglinskas]

Eyes on DACH market.

[PIXEVIA @Pixevia]

Pixevia raises €1.5M, eyeing DACH expansion.

The funds will be directed towards planned expansions throughout the U.S. and Europe, especially within the DACH region.

https://t.co/bNVa0qvSU6

[Mindaugas Eglinskas @MEglinskas]

@__ReJ__ https://t.co/G1nnu8mAdf

Robots are used for car moving / parking too.

[Mindaugas Eglinskas @MEglinskas]

“In fact, the response from shoppers to Just Walk Out in small-format stores has been so strong that we will launch more small-format third-party Just Walk Out stores in 2024.”

[Mindaugas Eglinskas @MEglinskas]

Amazon doubles down on smaller stores powered by AI: “We will launch more small-format third-party Just Walk Out stores in 2024 than any year prior, more than doubling the number of third-party stores with the technology this year.”

https://t.co/ZdrJMWSP0r

[Mindaugas Eglinskas @MEglinskas]

@nuolaida

[Mindaugas Eglinskas @MEglinskas]

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[PIXEVIA @Pixevia]

#PIXEVIA at Slush together with our first angel investor Vladas Lašas. #slush #vibes - a unicorn is just a stretch of the arm away, literally.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

The UAE Minister of AI @OmarSAlolama points to a historical precedent of premature technology regulation motivated by fear: the ban of the printing press in 1515 by Sultan Selim I led to the decline of the Ottoman Empire.

“We overregulated a technology, which was the printing press. It was adopted everywhere on Earth. The Middle East banned it for 200 years. The calligraphers came to the sultan and said: ‘We’re going to lose our jobs, do something to protect us’—so, job loss protection, very similar to AI. The religious scholars said people are going to print fake versions of the Quran and corrupt society—misinformation, second reason. It was fear of the unknown that led to this fateful decision."

https://t.co/CJQd6rMz5D

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Please ignore the deluge of complete nonsense about Q*.
One of the main challenges to improve LLM reliability is to replace Auto-Regressive token prediction with planning.

Pretty much every top lab (FAIR, DeepMind, OpenAI etc) is working on that and some have already published ideas and results.

It is likely that Q* is OpenAI attempts at planning. They pretty much hired Noam Brown (of Libratus/poker and Cicero/Diplomacy fame) to work on that.

[Note: I've been advocating for deep learning architecture capable of planning since 2016].

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Current LLMs are trained on text data that would take 20,000 years for a human to read.
And still, they haven't learned that if A is the same as B, then B is the same as A.
Humans get a lot smarter than that with comparatively little training data.
Even corvids, parrots, dogs, and octopuses get smarter than that very, very quickly, with only 2 billion neurons and a few trillion "parameters."

[Mindaugas Eglinskas @MEglinskas]

@nuolaida Čia viduje daugiau buvo susistumdymas, nei su investuotojais.

[Louis Anslow @LouisAnslow]

Nick Bostrom is starting to worry that AI fear could prevent upsides of AI in the same way nuclear fear prevented upsides of nuclear power.

This is a watershed, pivotal moment for the AI risk movement. Bostrom has broken ranks.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of AI Doomerism until we can figure out what is going on.

[Mindaugas Eglinskas @MEglinskas]

@nuolaida Kaip ten… nuo vilko ant meškos.

[Mindaugas Eglinskas @MEglinskas]

We were featured as the "Retail Technology Innovation of the Week"!

[PIXEVIA @Pixevia]

@Pixevia was featured as the "Retail Technology Innovation of the Week" at @RTIH_RetailTech!

https://t.co/HmfBGoPObk

[PIXEVIA @Pixevia]

We have powered the fifth AI-driven store for the IKI retail chain, a member of the REWE Group. This marks our seventh store overall, as we continue to expand our technology across Europe and the US. https://t.co/rT6m6WTzY3

[PIXEVIA @Pixevia]

We had two busy days at DHBW Heilbronn / Smart Stores 24/7, which also provided an opportunity to present @Pixevia and our main ideas about the future of retail - real-time experience and AI-driven decision making.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Lithuania celebrates Statehood Day today, marking the coronation of King Mindaugas 770 years ago.

His state was centred around Vilnius, but soon expanded into what is Belarus today

2 centuries later, Lithuania stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea and almost to Moscow

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[Vinod Khosla @vkhosla]

Private equity people fundamentally don’t understand innovation and new technologies. Nuclear fusion is going to change literally everything in our economy and if you showed them a working prototype they will just ask what the top line is.