Dileep George

Head of AI @AsteraInstitute Prev: AGI @DeepMind, cofounder @vicariousai (acqd by Alphabet), cofounder @Numenta. IIT-Bombay, MS&PhD Stanford.

[Dileep George @dileeplearning]

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[Dileep George @dileeplearning]

Compute is the helium of the AI era.

In 1920, everyone bet on bigger, better balloons. You can fly without understanding aerodynamics, and you can get intelligent behavior without fully understanding intelligence.

Talked dirigibles and brains with @fuelfive on Progress.

[D. Scott Phoenix @fuelfive]

Why has no one cracked the brain?

Progress ep10 is live with @dileeplearning, my Vicarious co-founder, now head of AI research at @AsteraInstitute.

We discuss why today's AI is a dirigible, why scaling isn't enough, and whether rogue-AI stories are overhyped.

[D. Scott Phoenix @fuelfive]

Why has no one cracked the brain?

Progress ep10 is live with @dileeplearning, my Vicarious co-founder, now head of AI research at @AsteraInstitute.

We discuss why today's AI is a dirigible, why scaling isn't enough, and whether rogue-AI stories are overhyped.

[Dileep George @dileeplearning]

@boardyai ok bot

[Dileep George @dileeplearning]

Things are sub-exponential after God gives up.

[Ben Recht @beenwrekt]

Hilariously, OpenAI’s galactic algorithm for resolving the Exponential Time Hypothesis runs an exponential-time subroutine if the number of variables is less than 10^10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. That number is also known as infinity plus 1.

[Dileep George @dileeplearning]

@PracheeAC Great idea, thank you! Will do that.

[Dileep George @dileeplearning]

The 'space time attractor' in 'A mechanistic theory is planning in PFC' is belief propagation on a unrolled graph, and you might miss it if you read the paper. https://t.co/97ilvtXtQj

[Phil Gara @phillipgara]

@dileeplearning This reminds me of @paulg on how technologies progress - those airships were marvels!

[Dileep George @dileeplearning]

@jcrwhittington Happy to peer review that too :)

[Dileep George @dileeplearning]

@behrenstimb @KrisTorpJensen @eLife https://t.co/nHPl4Wl8tP

[Dileep George @dileeplearning]

The 'space time attractor' in 'A mechanistic theory is planning in PFC' is belief propagation on a unrolled graph, and you might miss it if you read the paper. https://t.co/97ilvtXtQj

[Dileep George @dileeplearning]

@behrenstimb @KrisTorpJensen @eLife

[Dileep George @dileeplearning]

@mjdramstead well, mission accomplished :-)

[Dileep George @dileeplearning]

The free energy principle is free because it’s not that useful.

[Dileep George @dileeplearning]

@leothecurious basically how do you learn hierarchical models that do all this. (we're making progress of course). Not all models are compatible with doing active inference, their representations need to have certain properties.

[Dileep George @dileeplearning]

@leothecurious useful. The challenge is not the idea itself, but learning representations that make active inference possible in a scalable way.

[Dileep George @dileeplearning]

@grasgor yes, it needs your expertise definitely. And yes, there are cases where it can lead you in the wrong direction.

[Dileep George @dileeplearning]

I agree with Anshul and will soon show you a case study.

If you do not use AI to review, you are doing everyone a disservice.

[Anshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje]

Going to disagree here. On average an AI generated review will be better than a human generated one from the average reviewer especially in esoteric or cross disciplinary areas. I do agree that it is better to read the paper first, do ur own review & augment ur review with AI. 1/

[Dileep George @dileeplearning]

This is turning out to be even more interesting than I thought! Coming soon!

[Dileep George @dileeplearning]

Hmm. I did read the peer reviews and I’d call it peer review extra super lite. I’d be happy to do the job elife reviewers didn’t — I feel it shouldn’t be this joyous, stay tuned. :)

[Dileep George @dileeplearning]

@sehr_chic i chose to specialize in idlis, dosas, appams, and puttu that have also been around since the dark ages.

[Dileep George @dileeplearning]

Got nothing to do with America

After my bachelors I worked in Bangalore. First job. First time living in a city. (IIT Bombay campus doesn’t count)

A bunch of us from office went to a pizza place. My first time in a pizza place.

I pointed at something and I said I’ll have that pizza.

The look and correction I got from one of them is unforgettable “THAT’s LASAANIA”, which I later came to know is spelled lasagna.

[S 🌿 @ishqandinquilab]

i’m gonna make americans watch this scene to show how intimidating they can get

[Dileep George @dileeplearning]

Congrats to all my friends at Anthropic. Looks like it’s going to be epic. 🚀🚀🚀

[Dileep George @dileeplearning]

@srvmshr @karaninthewire Yeah I was semi-aware of this, but not about the act. The mumbai city name change happened during my time there! I remember a catchy bill board: “mum and bai think it’s cool”.