He spent 13 years at ISRO working on the cryogenic engines behind Chandrayaan and Gaganyaan. Then he left to build the one engine ISRO had never attempted, and that only one company on Earth has ever flown.
His name is Devakumar Thammisetty.
After more than a decade inside
@DarioAmodei proposes “Pacing the frontier” and @sama, @elonmusk and @demishassabis immediately agree. Could this be the oligopolies finally acknowledging that they can’t afford to keep spending at the same pace ?
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.
Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our
All the AI labs are peddling something similar: ”we’re building a god-like system that will eat all knowledge work.”
One piece of advice I’d give to app-layer founders:
Labs have an incentive to tell a maximalist story where raw intelligence is all that matters.
Today, the
9/11 was a turning point for many of us. Despite growing up in India, Sudan and Nigeria, all of which are hotbeds of terrorism, 9/11 was different for me. It felt personal, it made me more “American” and it made me really angry with respect to terrorism/terrorism. When I look
