This is who I sympathise with. This is why South Africans are on the streets today marching because people like Chidimma get away with fraud while ordinary South Africans pay the price.
🇦🇷🇲🇽 Argentine fans arguing with a Mexican supporting Spain.
Dude pulls a red card on them.
Then takes off the Mexico jersey to reveal the Spain one underneath.
Plot twist king 😂
Writer: Sol
Brutal!
In 1980, most African countries had higher GDP per capita than China. By 2016, almost none have.
China pursued industrial transformation. Africa largely pursued fragmented "diversification."
Andrej Karpathy just said what no one wants to admit:
"Your agent loop is generating garbage at scale and you can't see it."
1 output looks fine. 1,000 outputs = dead entropy, dead diversity.
90% of AI companies are building demos, not products.
In a 20-minute conversation, Karpathy reveals the full reasoning stack
i'm slowly realizing that the code i'm writing is no longer code
traditionally when we build software, we write code. code tells the machines "here's what you do"
if we write wrong code, machines will do wrong things. and that's what we call a bug
earlier this month, i wrote a pretty bad bug into one of firstmate's bash scripts. the code literally can't run, and should have broken firstmate
except it didn't. it went unnoticed for days. i discovered it when i came across the code and spent minutes wondering how on earth this could work
i then found that the agent ran the script, saw it fail, figured out what the script was trying to do, and did a workaround to achieve the same goal
so a bug that should have crashed the whole software almost didn't have any visible impact
that's when i discovered that what i wrote in the bash script is no longer code. it's not "here's what you do"
it's intent. it's "here's what i want"
intent doesn't crash and can't be broken. it gets executed regardless whether it's "correct" or not. i can no longer write "bugs"
what can still happen in intent is what i call "misses", which could be -
1. a misalignment between what's written and what my real intent is - this happens when i fail at articulating my thoughts
2. a misalignment between my real intent and the real demand - this happens when i fail at understanding the world
those are becoming the most important human skills in this new era
I’ve been asked several times whether Zhilin Yang, the founder of @Kimi_Moonshot was my PhD student. The answer is yes and he is absolutely brilliant.
But I’ve been incredibly fortunate to work with so many outstanding PhD students over the years. So I thought I’d brag a little about them and their career paths (of course there are also many MSc and undergraduate students, sorry if I missed anyone):
Founders / Founding Team Members
Devendra Chaplot @dchaplot PhD, Founding Member Thinking Machines / Mistral
Zhilin Yang PhD, Founder & CEO, Moonshot AI
Jimmy Ba @jimmybajimmyba MSc/PhD, Co-founder xAI
Hubert Tsai PhD, Co-founder Spuree, Apple
Nitish Srivastava @nitishsr PhD, Co-founder Perceptual Machines; Co-founder Vayu Robotics
Charlie Tang PhD, Co-founder Perceptual Machines, DE Shaw.
Professors
Paul Liang @pliang279 PhD, MIT
Ben Eysenbach @ben_eysenbach PhD, Princeton University
Ruosong Wang @RuosongW PhD, Peking University
Bhuwan Dhingra @bhuwandhingra PhD, Duke University
Roger Grosse @RogerGrosse Postdoc, University of Toronto
Alexander Schwing Postdoc, UIUC
Research Scientists
Shuyan Zhou @shuyanzh36, Postdoc, Meta Superintelligence Lab
Tiffany Min @SoYeonTiffMin PhD, Microsoft AI
Murtaza Dalal @mihdalal PhD, Tesla AI
Minji Yoon @MinjiYoon90 , PhD, Microsoft AI
Shrimai Prabhumoye PhD, NVIDIA AI, Mistral
Haitian Sun @sun_haitian PhD, Google DeepMind
Emilio Parisotto PhD, Google DeepMind
Lisa Lee PhD @rl_agent, Google DeepMind
Manzil Zaheer @ManzilZaheer PhD, Google DeepMind
Jamie Kiros PhD, Google Brain, OpenAI
Yuri Burda PhD, OpenAI, Anthropic
Cody Severinski PhD, Amazon