Ankit Agarwal

Engineer. Mainstream. Observant. Appreciator of small things. Lots of Small talk, random talk. @bitspilaniindia @UCSanDiego @lifeatgoogle

[Ankit Agarwal @anks2579]

Black friday time is the best time to watch the documentary "minimalism" on Netflix. I just realised i dont need anything.

[signüll @signulll]

storytelling is the only way to impose meaning on abundance, coherence on noise, & legitimacy on power.

strategy, ops, & capital are all downstream. without narrative control, none it will ever stick.

this has been the core premise of my account. in a world of infinite output, story is the scarce primitive. whoever can compress chaos into something ppl can feel, remember, forgive, & rally around actually runs the system. this skill is worth more than the entire c suite combined.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

One of my all-time favorite type of videos is pre-fame bands playing their extremely famous songs to a tiny room of people, because they're not yet known.

A thread of some examples:

Bastille playing Pompeii in what looks like someone's living room:

[Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas]

🏎️🏎️🏎️

[Formula 1 @F1]

All the drama! 😮

Catch this pit lane collision and many other dramatic moments in the Sprint highlights ▶️

#F1 #F1Sprint #MiamiGP

[The Cinéprism @TheCineprism]

It’s TVF and their village cinematic universe against the world 🤌❤️

[Google Labs @GoogleLabs]

Thrilled to share our latest #LabSession with Grammy winner & Indian film composer Shankar Mahadevan! Shankar brought a wealth of knowledge to refine Music AI Sandbox, an experimental tool helping songwriters, musicians, and producers realize their vision. Watch full vid: https://t.co/nHxsyZSxfZ

[Ankit Agarwal @anks2579]

This thread😅

[critter @BecomingCritter]

You hear Costco is great. One friend describes it as a 'shopping Disney World'. You start thinking about it. You have some extra cash. You decide to try it out, you'll save that much money in gas anyway! What's the worst that can happen?--

[Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK]

Say hello to Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B ⚡️, now available for production usage with:

- 50% lower price (vs 1.5 Flash)
- 2x higher rate limits (vs 1.5 Flash)
- lower latency on small prompts (vs 1.5 Flash)

https://t.co/48B09sB7uK

[shreya @shreyabasu003]

Every day someone in California is like “went on a walk” and then proceeds to post the most breathtaking landscapes god has to offer

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Sometimes life ...

[Deedy @deedydas]

I asked Gemini 1.5 Pro to analyze tech startup Rubrik's S-1, the IPO document, and tell me if I should buy or sell.

It read ~200k words, wrote a ~500 word memo in ~61s with NO hallucinations.

Wall Street pays analysts $3000+ for a week of "specialized" work, and this cost $1.5!

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Setting is a big part of any film, but how do you get the right place?

You can use CGI, build a set — or find the perfect location.

So from Star Wars to The Grand Budapest Hotel, here are some real places you might recognise from fictional worlds...

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

This video is incredible. A Chinese speed skater takes off at the beginning of a longer race. Her teammate then sprints to the front, confusing everyone on the “final lap” and easily securing Gold and Silver medals for the team. Watch until the end. Great teamwork.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Seeing some qs on what Gemini *is* (beyond the zodiac :). Best way to understand Gemini’s underlying amazing capabilities is to see them in action, take a look ⬇️

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Introducing Gemini 1.0, our most capable and general AI model yet. Built natively to be multimodal, it’s the first step in our Gemini-era of models. Gemini is optimized in three sizes - Ultra, Pro, and Nano

Gemini Ultra’s performance exceeds current state-of-the-art results on 30 of the 32 widely-used academic benchmarks. With a score of 90.0%, Gemini Ultra is the first model to outperform human experts on MMLU.
https://t.co/yCsjfQKO9F

[黄金リツ・Kogane Ritsu🦉📚EN/JP || 6周年/6 Year Anni! @koganeritsu]

I saw this, cringed so hard I pulled a muscle on my neck.
Now you all have to see it

Forgive me.

[AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ @AISafetyMemes]

How do people read this then just... go on with their day as usual?

“25 AI agents inhabit a digital Westworld, unaware that they are living in a simulation. They go to work, gossip, organize socials, make new friends, and even fall in love.”

Here’s a mindblowing example of how autonomous AIs are now, and how ridiculous it is to say that the AIs "only do things we tell them to do”:

POV: you tell the Westworld character “Isabella Rodriguez” to host an entire Valentine’s Day party in two days. This is a complex act, certainly something only humans, and not toasters, can do, right?

- Isabella proceeds to invite friends and customers when she sees them at Hobbs Cafe or elsewhere.
- Isabella then spends the afternoon of the 13th decorating the cafe for the party.
- Maria, a frequent customer and close friend of Isabella’s, arrives at the cafe. Isabella asks for Maria’s help in decorating for the party, and Maria agrees.
- That night, Maria invites Klaus, her secret crush, to join her at the party, and he gladly accepts.
- On Valentine’s Day, five agents, including Klaus and Maria, coordinate to show up for the party together at the right time (5pm), and they enjoy the festivities.

You told Isabella to host a party, but then she - and the other AIs - went and made a million other decisions entirely on their own - things you didn't explicitly tell them to do.

Autonomous AIs are here.

And -- tapping the sign -- this is another example where science fiction is becoming reality, and why “you watch too much sci-fi” is a stupid dunk.

This digital Westworld - “Smallville” - is now open source, meaning there will soon be thousands of these Westworlds, with thousands or millions of autonomous AIs populating them.

Makes you think, doesn’t it?

“Almost as interesting as the 7.8 billion inhabitants of Largeville, (almost) all unaware they are living in a simulation. Each has a unique personality and backstory.” - @Erikbryn

[Scott Seiss @ScottSeiss]

“Let’s replace all of our employees with A.I.”

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Barbie’s opening weekend was $337M. That’s nearly 2x Oppenheimer’s $174M.

Warner Brother's insane ”Operation Barbie Summer” is a big part of that success.

These are 50 of the team's most amazing marketing stunts:

1. 3D ad in front of Burj Khalifa

[Barsee 🐶 @heyBarsee]

The best stop-motion video ever produced so far 🔥

Imagine 30 years ago, when effects like this took THOUSANDS of hours to produce.