Vidhya

Interaction Designer, IDC | IIT-Bombay | Head UI/UX | Startup

[Trendulkar @Trendulkar]

The last Indian cities with a world-class drainage system were Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa... in 2600 BC. We peaked early.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Saw a video this morning of a Dogra man from a border town in Jammu saying, 'We've evacuated our kids, women, and elderly, but the men will stay to assist the Army.'

People living in India's border cities deserve applause. While the rest of us sit comfortably, discussing "tensions at the border" like it's just another headline, they live under the constant threat of war and attacks.

They hear the sirens. They’ve seen what shelling looks like. And yet, they stay. Their presence itself upholds our sovereignty. They open shops, send kids to school, go about life as normally as possible, not because they’re unaware of the risks, but because this is their home and they refuse to be pushed out by fear. Hats off brothers and sisters!

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Families of men & women on the frontlines, in cockpits, on ships, drone control rooms and forward stations, a nation can never thank you enough.

We stand with our forces and with you ALWAYS. 🇮🇳

[Ritesh Banglani @banglani]

This is a pooja room in Bangalore, a bar/DJ corner in Delhi and a living room in Mumbai

[Keh Ke Peheno @coolfunnytshirt]

Nice one! 👌🏽😂
What South Indian language sounds to North Indians!

[MOHINI WEALTH (NRI) @MohiniWealth]

Million views on TikTok and counting 😅

[Trendulkar @Trendulkar]

Every bylane in Mumbai looks like this now. What are they finding? Oil? Gold? Ethereum??

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

The true size of black holes.

📽: morn1415/Youtube

[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)

[Vidhya @VidhyaAppu]

Got a nice "Test" push notification from Airbnb. Interns i guess 😀 @Airbnb @AirbnbHelp

[Vijay Shekhar Sharma @vijayshekhar]

This is such an extraordinary data representing our Independent India’s abilities. Self reliant #AtmanirbharBharat 🇮🇳
Largest number of vaccinated citizen in world, obviously using made in India vaccines !

https://t.co/6Ub75C0mET

[Vidhya @VidhyaAppu]

This is truly horrible, hell on earth.

[Colonel DPK PILLAY, PhD, Shaurya Chakra @dpkpillay12]

This is what the the John Rambo style intervention of United States in Afghanistan has achieved after trillions of dollars & two decades.
If only today's Americans read history they would know Peace cannot be enforced it has to grow organically
Where are their great statesmen

[Abhinav Jain @abhinavjain]

We’re very excited to announce that we are joining hands with Glance to further our vision to democratize entrepreneurship and commerce. Together with @glancescreen and @RoposoLove , we at @Shop101 will be building the largest celeb and influencer commerce platform.

[Pramesh CS @cspramesh]

Today, our usual "Thursday morning meeting" at @TataMemorial was anything other than usual...
0.4%. This number becomes significant in the last tweet of this thread.
Follow on.

[IIT Bombay ACM SIGCHI Student Chapter @SIGCHI_IITB]

We invite you to the 21st ACM SIGCHI Mumbai Chapter Meet.

Date: 27th March 2021 (Saturday)
Time: 16:00 - 17:10 (IST)
Registration is free but mandatory.
Register at: https://t.co/KSO7w9oQvt

[Vidhya @VidhyaAppu]

Surreal! History coming alive

[keerthik śaśidharan @KS1729]

Kind of surreal to take a photo of the singularly inspiring Bhagat Singh -- a revolutionary voice in 1920s India, who was hung by the British in 1931, at the age of 24 -- run it through the Heritage AI algorithm, and see him reanimated.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

Is there a German word for features that one only ever trigger by mistake, like the Siri button on the MacBook touchbar?

[Aparna Ramachandra @msaparna]

This made me happy, proud, sad, helpless, privileged. All at one go.