lalith

Postdoc @IHUStrasbourg | AI for Surgical Safety & Interpretable ML | PhD in Cardiac Surgery @UniHeidelberg | Robust CV for surgical workflows | 🇮🇳→🇩🇪→🇫🇷

[lalith @onyourseat]

antiquity: you are written in the stars

the enlightenment: you are god’s clockwork

the computer age: you are elegant software

and now:

[Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW]

Think of yourself as an LLM.

Every social interaction, every meeting, burns your tokens.

Unless someone is a paid subscriber to your attention, you are under no obligation to answer low-quality prompts.

[lalith @onyourseat]

Some thoughts here: https://t.co/1eM92nQdyZ

[lalith @onyourseat]

The aviation-surgery comparison is useful but probably not explored fully. Aviation's safety systems sit on a mature sensor stack. In MIS, the endoscopic video stream does most of the heavy lifting, and building safety systems native to that modality is a very different problem.

[Oleksii Kuchaiev @kuchaev]

Anthropic just won something much more important than any benchmark or contract

[lalith @onyourseat]

@jmcl_gtr @jmcl_gtr when are you playing in Europe? :)

[Mehul Mohan @mehulmpt]

"You are a professional translation assistant. Detect the source language automatically. Translate the user's text into English. Preserve tone, meaning, punctuation, emoji, and inline formatting. Return only the translated text without commentary, labels, or quotes."

They just yolo-ed the prompt into GPT-5 model and called it a day 😂

[lalith @onyourseat]

@karpathy hard agree on the increasing gap between those who like building vs. coding; @karpathy how concerned are you about skill atrophy? is it something worth investing in? how do you see it play out in the future?

[lalith @onyourseat]

@neelsomani based

[lalith @onyourseat]

@dwarkesh_sp @stripepress @dwarkesh_sp can you send a signed copy for our lab lol, would be cool

[lalith @onyourseat]

@willccbb on that note, if also anyone reading is interested to work on surgical ai, hmu

[lalith @onyourseat]

@willccbb totally…the worlds of Asimov, Le Guin & Clarke are something we need to imagine and aspire to together as a collective

[lalith @onyourseat]

@itsCathyDi @WindsorNguyen everyone’s missing that phone guy just pushed to prod

[lalith @onyourseat]

@tszzl bro your tv didn’t follow you into the bathroom with infinite slop ‘For You.’

[lalith @onyourseat]

pov you’re a squirrel watching sutton on dwarkesh: field notes on the persistent anthropocentric bias in reinforcement learning

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

.@RichardSSutton, father of reinforcement learning, doesn’t think LLMs are bitter-lesson-pilled.

My steel man of Richard’s position: we need some new architecture to enable continual (on-the-job) learning.

And if we have continual learning, we don't need a special training phase - the agent just learns on-the-fly - like all humans, and indeed, like all animals.

This new paradigm will render our current approach with LLMs obsolete.

I did my best to represent the view that LLMs will function as the foundation on which this experiential learning can happen. Some sparks flew.

0:00:00 – Are LLMs a dead-end?
0:13:51 – Do humans do imitation learning?
0:23:57 – The Era of Experience
0:34:25 – Current architectures generalize poorly out of distribution
0:42:17 – Surprises in the AI field
0:47:28 – Will The Bitter Lesson still apply after AGI?
0:54:35 – Succession to AI

[lalith @onyourseat]

once indian uncles get this it’s over

[Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang]

Excited to share Vibes — a new feed in the Meta AI app for short-form, AI-generated videos.

[lalith @onyourseat]

an ai cloud for the public sector might just be the long-overdue upgrade germany needed

[lalith @onyourseat]

we are so back

[OpenAI Newsroom @OpenAINewsroom]

OpenAI, SAP & Microsoft are launching OpenAI for Germany—a partnership to bring frontier AI to Germany’s public sector, through a sovereign, certified cloud environment.

Built on SAP’s Delos Cloud and running on Microsoft Azure, this new initiative will help employees across German governments, administrations and research institutions use our technology to spend more time on people, not paperwork.

https://t.co/6gzpUPD1Gt

[lalith @onyourseat]

@maharshii ‘matrix maintenance’ goes well with the vibe

[lalith @onyourseat]

@AndreaMadotto cool work! excited to see how it holds up with spatially grounded tasks in the medical domain

[lalith @onyourseat]

@vikhyatk just the regular ones