Amit Adarkar (@AmitAd) profile picture

Amit Adarkar

@AmitAd

Insights expert. Leader. AI enthusiast. Learner. Blogger. Writer. Mentor. Doctoral researcher. Optimist.

 Mumbai
linkedin.com/in/amitadarkar
Joined April 2009
  • Tweets105
  • Following41
  • Followers82
8Media
Photo by Amit Adarkar (@AmitAd)Photo by Amit Adarkar (@AmitAd)Photo by Amit Adarkar (@AmitAd)Photo by Amit Adarkar (@AmitAd)Photo by Amit Adarkar (@AmitAd)Photo by Amit Adarkar (@AmitAd)Photo by Amit Adarkar (@AmitAd)Photo by Amit Adarkar (@AmitAd)
In 1984, India’s bank unions feared computers. So the computers were renamed “Advanced Ledger Posting Machines.” New Random Walk: a stone-age tribe invents AI, and has every argument we’re having today. youtube.com/watch?v=5cI6HNYj…
What happened when a stone-age tribe invented AI?

What happened when a stone-age tribe invented AI?

Written by Amit Adarkar. Voiced by his AI clone.Forty thousand ye...

youtube.com
5
Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Caveat Emptor linkedin.com/pulse/caveat-em… via @LinkedIn
Caveat Emptor

Caveat Emptor

Somewhere in a scientific paper published in the last few years, a serious author, writing with a serious face, described their methodology using the phrase "vegetative electron microscopy." Please...

linkedin.com
2
The voice is synthetic. The thinking is not. youtu.be/fz1AkIYPdlg?si=hQJO… via @YouTube
The voice is synthetic. The thinking is not.

The voice is synthetic. The thinking is not.

Written by Amit Adarkar. Voiced by his AI clone. #GenerativeAI #Voi...

youtube.com
7
Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Random Walk now has a voice. Almost mine. linkedin.com/pulse/random-wa… via @LinkedIn
Random Walk now has a voice. Almost mine.

Random Walk now has a voice. Almost mine.

For the last few years, this blog has been one idea at a time, usually borrowed from somewhere odd, and brought back to data, AI or plain everyday life. Some of you read every post.

linkedin.com
2
Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Greenlights linkedin.com/pulse/greenligh… via @LinkedIn
Greenlights

Greenlights

Two headlines have been sitting on my desk today, and I have not been able to shake either of them. The first is a piece of news from a premier Indian engineering institute.

linkedin.com
6
Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Synecdoche, Bombay linkedin.com/pulse/synecdoch… via @LinkedIn
Synecdoche, Bombay

Synecdoche, Bombay

I started a new job a few months ago. Given that we are a remote working company, I will say that the coffee is decent (it is my home coffee machine!) and the Wi-Fi is faster than I deserve (it is my...

linkedin.com
8
Check out the latest article in my newsletter: The Owl and the Arrival Fallacy linkedin.com/pulse/owl-arriv… via @LinkedIn
The Owl and the Arrival Fallacy

The Owl and the Arrival Fallacy

This morning, over my first cup of coffee, my phone buzzed politely to inform me that I had just completed my 1500th consecutive day on Duolingo. Fifteen hundred days.

linkedin.com
5
Image from Amit Adarkar (@AmitAd)
4
Image from Amit Adarkar (@AmitAd)
3
Image from Amit Adarkar (@AmitAd)
4
Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Leonardo, Leopardi, and My Notes App linkedin.com/pulse/leonardo-… via @LinkedIn
Leonardo, Leopardi, and My Notes App

Leonardo, Leopardi, and My Notes App

Somewhere on my phone, buried in the Notes app, there is a document that I opened for a specific reason in 2018 and have not been able to close since. It has become a swamp.

linkedin.com
7
DeepSeek V4 (out this week) benchmarks at frontier quality- Claude Opus 4.7 performance- at 10–13x lower cost. Kimi K3 weights land July 27. The practical move for most orgs? Hybrid. Closed models for hard reasoning problems, open-weight for volume.
Image from Amit Adarkar (@AmitAd)
125
India's adopted AI faster than any country on earth - 80% of enterprises are using it. But 56% of CEOs report zero measurable ROI in the past 12 months. We're investing in the tech. We're not investing in the foundation to make it work.
Image from Amit Adarkar (@AmitAd)
13
Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Hans Moravec and the Missing Jetpack linkedin.com/pulse/hans-mora… via @LinkedIn
Hans Moravec and the Missing Jetpack

Hans Moravec and the Missing Jetpack

When I was fifteen, I was absolutely certain that by the time I would be fifty, I would have three things- a flying car, a robot that folded my laundry, and a holiday on the moon. I had this on the...

linkedin.com
11
Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Aesop's Fable 5 linkedin.com/pulse/aesops-fa… via @LinkedIn
Aesop's Fable 5

Aesop's Fable 5

On Tuesday, the ninth of June, Anthropic released the most capable AI model the public had ever been allowed to touch. They called it Claude Fable 5, the public face of a more powerful frontier model...

linkedin.com
54
Check out the latest article in my newsletter: The Memory Palace and Donald Hebb linkedin.com/pulse/memory-pa… via @LinkedIn
The Memory Palace and Donald Hebb

The Memory Palace and Donald Hebb

A few months ago, I had to give a forty-minute talk at a conference, and I decided, for reasons I now think of as mostly vanity, to do it entirely without notes. No slides.

linkedin.com
4
Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Aunt's Question and Jason Wei's Answer linkedin.com/pulse/aunts-que… via @LinkedIn
Aunt's Question and Jason Wei's Answer

Aunt's Question and Jason Wei's Answer

Given my follicly challenged nature, my barber visits are usually short. Haircuts are over-shadowed by accompanying conversations.

linkedin.com
7
Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Cockroaches in the Thucydides Trap linkedin.com/pulse/cockroach… via @LinkedIn
Cockroaches in the Thucydides Trap

Cockroaches in the Thucydides Trap

Few days ago, two of the world's most powerful men sat across a long polished table exchanging the kind of careful smiles that politicians spend whole careers perfecting. The cameras clicked.

linkedin.com
5
Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Your chatbot is a demon! linkedin.com/pulse/your-chat… via @LinkedIn
Your chatbot is a demon!

Your chatbot is a demon!

There was someone I knew who could finish anyone's sentences. Birthday parties, weddings, mundane Sunday lunches, he would jump in, complete your thought, and chuckle as if to say "you are so...

linkedin.com
6
Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Master Chef and the Two-Minute Prompt linkedin.com/pulse/master-ch… via @LinkedIn
Master Chef and the Two-Minute Prompt

Master Chef and the Two-Minute Prompt

A friend of mine has one of the Master Chef judges on his speed dial. They went to the same college, stayed in touch over time, and somehow my friend has the kind of access most home cooks would sell...

linkedin.com
7
Load more