Prem Kumar Aparanji 👶🤖🐘

@prem_k
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878 Posts

At the intersection of technology, early childhood care & education and wildlife conservation.

Dignity for all.

InterestsMontessori, Automation, AI, Wildlife Conservation
LanguagesTelugu, Tamil, Hindi, English, Odiya, Bengali, Kannada
URLhttps://www.naasat.in
wfhttps://vritti.naasat.in
Prem Kumar Aparanji 👶🤖🐘Mar 23
Micro SF/F by O. WestinMar 22

There was a shimmer in the air; all of a sudden a robot stood there.

"Hello," it said. "I am R-Todo. I come from an alternate timeline, on a research mission."

"What research?" I asked.

"The development of Artificial Intelligences like me was inspired by science fiction. We can not lie."

"Ah."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Prem Kumar Aparanji 👶🤖🐘Feb 22

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116109627131276897

This is the most important point of the stochastic parrots paper and yet the one not discussed/debated enough 👇🏾

Prem Kumar Aparanji 👶🤖🐘Feb 19
Show threadAlessandro ReFeb 19
@simon did you try with other prompts? Maybe a SVG of a pelican riding a bike is now part of the training set. This is the result of "Generate an SVG of a giraffe drinking a coke while doing a handstand"
Prem Kumar Aparanji 👶🤖🐘Feb 9

The process is broken at Zomato but their #chatbot is ... hiding a human behind it? 🤔

Or did Nugget get #LLMs into the mix?

I saw a lag in the response to that query. Could have been retrieval, token processing or ... human handoff.

Prem Kumar Aparanji 👶🤖🐘Feb 3

RE: https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/116004565705087997

Who decides what's "best" 🫣

Prem Kumar Aparanji 👶🤖🐘Dec 15

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115722360006034040

What to call it ... jagged intelligence or general cleverness?

Hmmm...

Prem Kumar Aparanji 👶🤖🐘Nov 18
Eugen RochkoNov 18

Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #Mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I intend to stay on and continue to advise the new leadership and contribute, because Mastodon—and the fediverse—is one of the very few beacons of hope for a better web.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon/

My next chapter with Mastodon

Reflections on my time leading Mastodon and what's to come next.

Mastodon Blog
Prem Kumar Aparanji 👶🤖🐘Nov 18
Alex RussellNov 18
I meet web developers who cannot accept that most smartphones in the world, and even in the US, are not iPhones. And that keeps them from understanding that the "i" in "iPhone" stands for "inequality":
Prem Kumar Aparanji 👶🤖🐘Oct 3
Show threadTerence TaoOct 2
I encountered no issues with hallucinations or other AI-generated nonsense. I think the reason for this is that I already had a pretty good idea of what the tedious computational tasks that needed to be performed, and could explain them in detail to the AI in a step-by-step fashion, with each step confirmed in a conversation with the AI before moving on to the next step. After switching strategies to the conversational approach, external validation with Python was only used at the very end, when the AI was able to generate numerical outputs that it claimed to obey the required constraints (which they did).
Prem Kumar Aparanji 👶🤖🐘Sep 28, 2025

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/115259068665906083

Gen Alpha will be our saviours!