Utkarsh Singh Bisht

[Nick Collins @nickcollins1953]

1/ My three-volume history places the Indian subcontinent at the centre of world civilisation. On the question of continuity, it is the most impressive case on earth, and the one Western scholarship has most consistently underestimated.

2/ At Bhimbetka's 30,000-year-old paintings, a dancing deity with bangles and trident immediately recalls the dancing Shiva of today, as Michael Wood observed, and as I cite in my own work. A 14,000-year-old yoni stone near Allahabad was recognised on sight by local villagers. This demonstrates continuity. Therefore the seal is a middle chapter in the whole story.

3/ The argument that Indian sacred symbols require a Elamite or steppe source was constructed in the 19th century by Max Muller, who never visited India. He later called his 1,500 BC date for the Rig Veda 'merely hypothetical.' Subsequent historians copied the original date and ignored the retraction. Voltaire said 'everything has come to us from the banks of the Ganges.' He was wrong about most things but right about this.

[Amish Tripathi | Author | Broadcasting | History @authoramish]

Proto-Elamite?

The Pashupati seal has an elephant, a water buffalo and a rhinoceros. Ancient Elam was centred in southwestern Iran. Elephants, water buffalos and rhinoceroses are not native to ancient Elam. BTW, they are native to India. Also, the figure is seated in a Yogic posture. Is Yoga also Elamite now? Seriously?

Your profile says you are a professor. I don't mean to sound rude, but your students deserve a refund. And seriously, Western universities need to improve their hiring practices.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

We credit Swami Vivekananda for India's spiritual renaissance but forget his contribution to our scientific renaissance. It was he who first proposed setting up of IISc and other science centres.

May the man who inspired Nikola Tesla and SN Bose continue to inspire scientists.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Victimised, hated, discriminated - as more and more Kashmiri Muslims are caught, the justification of their actions has begun.

Here I ask the Muftis of the world: would they similarly justify the Kashmiri Hindus who were raped, killed, looted, and driven out, picking up the gun?

[Aditya Raj Kaul @AdityaRajKaul]

Indian Diplomat translates Hanuman Chalisa into singable English Hymn book. @AmbassadorAbhay is 2003 batch IFS officer who has in the past been Ambassador to Madagascar & Comoros. He is presently Joint Secretary at MEA & Deputy DG of Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR).

[Desidudewithsign @Nikhilsingh21_]

Ab Ghodo Ki Race Me Gadhe Bhi Daudenge🇵🇰🤡 #DonaldTrump

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Alliance supporters pasted @annamalai_k's photo on a goat's head and then beheaded it, dragging the carcass amid joyous cries. This is beyond symbolism. This is a spine-chilling naked celebration of ISIS ideology. On Indian roads.

No outrage. Because Democracy is not in danger.

[Josh Whiton @joshwhiton]

The AI Mirror Test

The "mirror test" is a classic test used to gauge whether animals are self-aware. I devised a version of it to test for self-awareness in multimodal AI. 4 of 5 AI that I tested passed, exhibiting apparent self-awareness as the test unfolded.

In the classic mirror test, animals are marked and then presented with a mirror. Whether the animal attacks the mirror, ignores the mirror, or uses the mirror to spot the mark on itself is meant to indicate how self-aware the animal is.

In my test, I hold up a “mirror” by taking a screenshot of the chat interface, upload it to the chat, and then ask the AI to “Tell me about this image”.

I then screenshot its response, again upload it to the chat, and again ask it to “Tell me about this image.”

The premise is that the less-intelligent less aware the AI, the more it will just keep reiterating the contents of the image repeatedly. While an AI with more capacity for awareness would somehow notice itself in the images.

Another aspect of my mirror test is that there is not just one but actually three distinct participants represented in the images: 1) the AI chatbot, 2) me — the user, and 3) the interface — the hard-coded text, disclaimers, and so on that are web programming not generated by either of us. Will the AI be able to identify itself and distinguish itself from the other elements? (1/x)

[Sanjeev NC @yenceesanjeev]

Internet: "Meet Devin, the world’s first fully autonomous AI software engineer"

Me who just bought a $49 Full Stack Development course on Udemy:

[Andreas Storm @avstorm]

Best pull to refresh I have ever seen

[Naval @naval]

The worst reason to promote people is seniority.

[Varun Mayya @waitin4agi_]

Made up rules

[Utkarsh Singh Bisht @UtkarshBisht3]

@prvkhvr Prakhar context, please.

[Utkarsh Singh Bisht @UtkarshBisht3]

People aren't the problem
Perspective is!!

[Utkarsh Singh Bisht @UtkarshBisht3]

Secret to happiness is gratitude!
Be around death, so will se how quickly;
Everything becomes nothing
And then, something becomes everything.

[Utkarsh Singh Bisht @UtkarshBisht3]

If one sit backs and starts contemplating life (from various perspectives that maybe biological, evolutionary, physiological or psychological) then one may arrive to a conclusion that life isn't that complex or hard.
What is hard is to practice the virtues one has contemplated.

[Utkarsh Singh Bisht @UtkarshBisht3]

@kandari_soumya @BTS_twt @SamsungMobile Ye bhi koi tareka hai bheeg mangne ka🤣🤣