Bi-pedal on M.M Alam

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On this hot summer day, I'm staring out the window - the sun pounding down on the pavement - and watching cars pass by and humans walking along To imagine that one day, maybe 25-30 years from now, seeing bi-pedal machines walking by, while looking out the same window, will be as normal as seeing those cars - is a humbling yet exciting prospect Todays musing are inspired by R1-Omni, a ML Model that can detect emotions I did a superficial reading of it, but why stuff like this is exciting on some level is because we humans seem to be building operating systems to power robots and machines to operate like - humans. Everything I see and read these days in tech, makes me more and more convinced that one of the frontiers of human technological advancement as it relates to extending human capabilities, is the desire to recreate the human itself My belief in this is primarily since I am an optimist that the world is moving towards an abundance of wealth. We might, might not, see it in our ...
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Carbon Chauvinism

The idea that being made of organic material is a pre-requesite for intelligence. 

Mark Tegmark. I heard the term first from him. "It doesn't matter if carbon atoms in the brain are processing the information or silicon atoms in a computer" 

I understand him. This is fundamentally what now draws me to computer science and makes me want to be something of a businessman/tech enthusiast/computer scientist/ML Engineer/DL expert

Because I understand we have limitations, but computers dont and if properly utilized, we can have millions of intelligent beings under our control, without having to resort to the barbarism that was slavery. 

Informational accessibility, democratization of it as well and the idea of being able to utilize time effectively, being able to optimize based on data we never had and being able to communicate and collaborate with people across the globe without ever having to leave the comfort of our homes

I realize that is what excites me, because I'm selfish. I see what personal benefit I can obtain if I was to utilize this information correctly and shed my so called "Carbon Chauvinism"




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