Arul Murugan

Grad student @UCBerkeley | Interested in AI Safety | Alum @BITSPilaniGoa

[Arul Murugan @_arulm_]

So excited to share our work on using the LLMs for testing new theories. Huge thanks to @abhishekn for this wonderful opportunity and also to my coauthors @MTranchero and Cecil for their excellent efforts.
A special shoutout to @ExpectedParrot for making this experiment feasible.

[Abhishek Nagaraj @abhishekn]

🚨New research alert! 🚨

Tired of expensive, time-consuming experiments? 😴 We propose a new way to test and extend social science theories with an LLM-based framework: Generative AI-Based Experimentation (GABE) 🤖

https://t.co/p1FtwFYpAj

w/ @MTranchero @_arulm_ & Cecil B.

[Arul Murugan @_arulm_]

The more I read the more I marvel at the competitive nature of @demishassabis

> "Anyway," he continued, flashing a grin of rueful self-awareness, "the slightly warped way I took that was, how do you know you've done your best?

> "The only way I could know is basically if I pushed myself to the point just before death. Because that is literally when you have done your best. If you die—by die, I mean burn out or something-then you've slightly overdone it.

> "It's like running a marathon. You have to basically fall over the line. And then ideally you should be hospitalized, but not dead. That's when you can say you've done your best. But if you've got any energy left, you're still standing, maybe you could have tried harder?

> "That's how I took it. I must have been about nine or ten."

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> In 2009, around the time he met Hassabis, Hinton received another boost: the opportunity to turbocharge these networks with special chips-"graphics processing units" originally designed to render video game images. But even though Hinton was riding high, he found to his astonishment that Hassabis was as cocky as he was. "Demis is the only person I've ever met who's more competitive than me, Hinton recalled of that encounter.

[Arul Murugan @_arulm_]

@tszzl kinda like voting against your fellow thief in mafia when it feels too late

[Arul Murugan @_arulm_]

@brianchristian @CHAI_Berkeley wow you book was one of the reasons I learnt a about Berkeley and chose to come here, welcome back :)

[Arul Murugan @_arulm_]

@abhishekn @UCBerkeley also he started from BITS :)

[Daniel Tenreiro @TenreiroDaniel]

@Pontifex Holy Father the post will perform better if you append the url in a threaded reply as opposed to linking it in the tweet

[Stanford HAI @StanfordHAI]

New research reveals alarming patterns in AI hiring tools.

A large-scale study of 4 million job applications found that 26% of Black applicants and 15% of Asian applicants faced algorithmic discrimination.

When one AI vendor screens for multiple employers, qualified candidates can be systematically rejected everywhere they apply.

As 90% of U.S. employers now use AI screening, understanding these tools' impact on the workforce becomes more urgent.

Hear more from the study's lead author @RishiBommasani or read our latest blog: https://t.co/NvIpUbYPQS

[rishi @RishiBommasani]

AI is changing how employers hire workers.

Today we are publishing our research over the past four years into this high-stakes application of AI.

We independently studied the impacts of deployed AI hiring tools based on the real outcomes for 3.3 million people.

[Arul Murugan @_arulm_]

idk how many 3am false alarm evacuation i've inside me

[Abhishek Nagaraj @abhishekn]

Excited to have a new op-ed out in @FortuneMagazine with @martin_casado from @a16z

Our core thesis: building/growing companies looks completely different when startup growth does not necessarily require growing headcount-- instead expanding compute + a smaller team to orchestrate can take a company to great heights much faster.

check out the article for more!
(non-paywall link)
https://t.co/eDuywjjmha

[Arul Murugan @_arulm_]

@johnjhorton @alex_peys @MIT @ExpectedParrot Get one for me as well!

[Arul Murugan @_arulm_]

@sarahookr Kaya is one of my fav too!

[Arul Murugan @_arulm_]

@t6aguirre @thkostolansky https://t.co/OW5G312Xiw

[Arul Murugan @_arulm_]

@vibhayellamraju congrats!

[Sophia Kazinnik @SophiaKazinnik]

🔥This should be a great event. Please join us tomorrow morning!

[pH @pHequals7]

@akbirthko literally my personality

[Arul Murugan @_arulm_]

you can just do things

[Chandra R. Srikanth @chandrarsrikant]

So, a nondescript TVK candidate used a doppelganger of Vijay during his campaign and ended up trouncing the sitting CM of Tamil Nadu ! Indian elections are wild...

[Arul Murugan @_arulm_]

@phalgooon yup :(

[Arul Murugan @_arulm_]

got my phone robbed in rio last week in the exact same way 😭

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Stockholm is remarkably walkable. At one point we were walking somewhere and we needed to check a map. It was such a relief not to have to think about the phone being stolen. In London we always duck into a doorway before checking a phone on the street.

[Arul Murugan @_arulm_]

@hopes_revenge Cheeseboard hopes meetup

[Judy Shen @judyhshen]

This is the first project I’ve worked on since joining @esindurmusnlp’s team on Societal Impacts!

This area is super important and I hope others will work on it too!!

Check it out 👇