Jambavan

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A notebook of Dad and a Founder.

[Jambavan @metafactorial]

@vaibcode but not when lives are on the line.

[Jambavan @metafactorial]

the work ahead is clear: patient foundational R&D, and institutions to sustain it.

build models, yes. but pick one foundation: meaning, representation, reasoning, and build it ourselves.

let us begin again. 🇮🇳

https://t.co/A6R6HOvMsK

[S Gurumurthy @sgurumurthy]

The US govt is doing that favour to us. Instead of importing the US android AI models now we will be forced to develop our own AI. This is what Dr Kalam wanted. Poor US MNC s and funds. They have sunk trillions based on Indian market. Where will they book their investment losses

[Jambavan @metafactorial]

the nation is watching the AI race like a cricket final: biggest model, who got cut off, who is catching up.

but perhaps we are watching the wrong screen.

The question is not only who wins.
It is who owns the racetrack.

https://t.co/XiWaba55JK

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

This is big: all access to Mythos and Fable AI models disabled for everyone outside America.

First thoughts:

1. Technology is the ultimate weapon. National sovereignty, national security, all of it is now about technology.

2. Globalization is dead and Bharat must find her own way ahead.

We must keep these two ideas in mind.

What can our government do right now? Ensure that orgs in India embrace smaller models, both Indian and Chinese open source ones. With a bit of effort, we can make them work. Anyway, why pay money to people who don't even want to sell to you?

We must deepen our R&D. Sarvam has been on it and we have been on it but remember that the latest models cost not only huge GPU budgets to train, the GPUs themselves are restricted. So we can't afford the scale of money (of the order of $100+ billion to even get in the game!) and even if we could come up with the money, we can't get all the GPUs. I would not like to ask the government to fund tens of billions of dollars on this anyway - the money has far better uses.

Zoho has been pursuing alternative R&D approaches that are far, far less expensive but by its nature cutting edge R&D takes time and we are patient. I am confident we will get there.

Any remaining people in India who have delusions about globalization should wake up now.

[Jambavan @metafactorial]

this is not only about AI. the same lesson keeps surfacing: energy, chips, sea lanes, cloud.

diplomacy can manage crises. It cannot replace capability.

a civilization stays exposed where its foundations are owned elsewhere.

https://t.co/28kzUb9icf

[sphinx @protosphinx]

Sir, they have blocked access to the very AI models you said we should share instead of build

[Jambavan @metafactorial]

@aakrit and then do what?

replicate the same shortcomings of LLMs, copy the same ideas which have shown their limits spectacularly?

or start an unending game of energy and compute hunger?

it's the hard constraints that give birth to inventions; without them it's the zilch at the end!

[Arlo White @arlowhite]

I suspect either a tray table was down, or one of the window blinds was still half open.

[Jambavan @metafactorial]

@SirJambavan Link

[Jambavan @metafactorial]

the law of the farm never lies. what you sow, is what you reap. and then you die. and that’s ok. #echoesofthemind

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

High agency is what happens when curiosity survives frustration.

[Jambavan @metafactorial]

senses only provide data of experience, but understanding imposes it's own laws on the data of experience to transform them into synthetic, harmonious whole of knowledge. #echoesofthemind

[Jambavan @metafactorial]

oh, what a fish pool! nothing deplorable. vital and yet empty.

the sum of your sacrifices are bigger than the sum of sacrifices of another fish.

doesn't that make you just another fish taking rounds in the fish pool for eternity!

may pashupati bless you. #echoesofthemind

[Jambavan @metafactorial]

death is like taking off a tight shoe. #thefinalfestival