Mercedes Soria

EVP & Chief Intelligence Officer @iKnightscope, Inc. @AnitaBorg_org ABIE award winner. Women in STEM advocate, @Forbes contributor. Dancer. Dog mom.

[Mercedes Soria @MercedesSoria]

The best way to start a #startup is by finding a problem and the. Finding a tech solution for it. Too many people start with the tech and the. Try to find a problem to solve with it. Happens ever in global multinationals.

[William Santana Li 🇺🇸 @WSantanaLi]

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[Mercedes Soria @MercedesSoria]

@heyshrutimishra EARN

[Mercedes Soria @MercedesSoria]

@heyshrutimishra Send

[Mercedes Soria @MercedesSoria]

@BaptisteVicini Do you have a link perhaps?

[Mercedes Soria @MercedesSoria]

Interesting point!

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

It's a bit sad and confusing that LLMs ("Large Language Models") have little to do with language; It's just historical. They are highly general purpose technology for statistical modeling of token streams. A better name would be Autoregressive Transformers or something.

They don't care if the tokens happen to represent little text chunks. It could just as well be little image patches, audio chunks, action choices, molecules, or whatever. If you can reduce your problem to that of modeling token streams (for any arbitrary vocabulary of some set of discrete tokens), you can "throw an LLM at it".

Actually, as the LLM stack becomes more and more mature, we may see a convergence of a large number of problems into this modeling paradigm. That is, the problem is fixed at that of "next token prediction" with an LLM, it's just the usage/meaning of the tokens that changes per domain.

If that is the case, it's also possible that deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch and friends) are way too general for what most problems want to look like over time. What's up with thousands of ops and layers that you can reconfigure arbitrarily if 80% of problems just want to use an LLM?

I don't think this is true but I think it's half true.

[William Santana Li 🇺🇸 @WSantanaLi]

Rise of the Robots Episode 20 is out! This time just couple of guys talking about lessons learned + some laughs that might help a #Founder somehow.

Also, kids careful who you meet online cuz there are folks like @NicholasCoriano out there spreading knowledge and motivation!🙂

[Mercedes Soria @MercedesSoria]

Furthermore, generative AI, made popular by OpenAI, is having a massive environmental impact. Read the whole article which is eye opening in The Guardian, here:

https://t.co/A56Xg7413K

[Mercedes Soria @MercedesSoria]

@lexfridman promoting your podcast by casting doubt in the current system of debates is not a good thing.

[Mercedes Soria @MercedesSoria]

@Apple great announcement today, loved the iPhone16 Pro and all the diversity of employees: Women, Asians, Indians but oh man, don’t you at least have one Latin person in the whole company? You went all the way down to managers !
Still a long ways to go ….
So you know why it bothers me? Because I am a loyal customer since 2007 and since I have a Latin accent, Siri is completely useless for me….please improve 🙏

[Mercedes Soria @MercedesSoria]

@lexfridman That is one I won’t be watching

[Mercedes Soria @MercedesSoria]

If you are in the USA and are not sure if you are registered to vote or to register to vote if you have not done so yet, you can go to https://t.co/gCWJMPna4Q to check or register. Let’s make every vote count!

[Mercedes Soria @MercedesSoria]

Too good not to share …..

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

A tale of two conventions: DNC vs. RNC

[CII Foundation @CIIFoundation]

On 1st August, our CII Foundation Woman Exemplars had the opportunity to engage in an inspiring interaction with Ms. Mercedes Soria, Executive Vice President and Chief Intelligence Officer at Knightscope, hosted by the US Consulate Mumbai in Pune, Maharashtra.

[William Santana Li 🇺🇸 @WSantanaLi]

Happy Monday cuz when you run a company every day is Monday!

[Mercedes Soria @MercedesSoria]

https://t.co/OeA2VtxJwf

[William Santana Li 🇺🇸 @WSantanaLi]

Exactly.

[MCCIA @MCCIA_Pune]

🌟 From the US to India: #AI Business & Career Opportunities Event

Today, we @MCCIA_Pune hosted a session on "Business & Career Opportunities in an Era of AI Transitions." @MercedesSoria, EVP of Software Engineering and Chief Intelligence Officer at @iKnightscope Inc., delivered key insights into #AI and #robotics, revealing their impact on future business and career prospects.

Grateful to the @USAndMumbai for enabling this.

Special thanks to Rob Anderson, Public Diplomacy Officer at the @USAndMumbai for joining us.

[Mercedes Soria @MercedesSoria]

Why Elon Musk Doesn’t Believe in Free Speech https://t.co/gcGXUKRrr4 via @YouTube

An insightful look at the richest man on earth…