About Me
This is the website of Sidharth Pulipaka. I’m an undergraduate student, grinding Math/Deep Learning. It’s been a little over a year since I started my grind.
I believe AGI is almost here (Kaplan et al. [2020]). Post-AGI world is going to be so different, and we are so early. I’m in the process of figuring out my career goals for a post-AGI world. All the time I’m spending on Deep Learning can be considered as spending on a hobby (I’m so addicted, somebody help me please).
I’d like to be a researcher one day, but I’m sure automated Alec Radford is almost around the corner. But anyway, here’s my experience for my future employers (just in case):
Experience
Research Intern at AI4Bharat @ IIT Madras (January 2025 - Present)
I’m currently working in the speech translation department.
Assisted with research at my university
I have worked (and still working) with several professors in my university. We are working on variation of Ant Colony Optimization algorithm.
Philosophy
I believe AGI is around the corner. I think of AGI as something that can potentially replace ‘almost all the jobs’.
Neural Scaling Laws are like sheet music, the important thing isn’t can you read music, it’s can you hear it. Can you hear the music, Robert?
Let’s have a thought experiment. Let’s say we achieve AGI. It’s completely aligned, it’s open-source. All the governments of the world are at UN General Assembly, and have decided to completely co-operate with one another. Everyone trusts one another and no one is racing for global dominance. What path should humanity take going forward?
I think about this a lot.
My is quite low, less than 1% (But I’m reading about AI safety lately. I may change my beliefs soon). I think that AI is going to be the last human invention, and we’ll be in a utopia soon (if the above conditions hold). No poverty, no illnesses, everybody gets all the resources they need.
If the ideal conditions don’t hold, then it’s so over.
This is supposed to be an overview page about me. I’ll make a longer dedicated post expanding about my Philosophy.
I’m a Gwern fanboy. I’ll also attempt to make few posts like him going forward.
Paper Breakdowns
If you are on this website, that’s probably for this.
Check out Paper Breakdowns where I upload a breakdown of an interesting paper (usually the latest as soon as they come out) very frequently. I try to avoid making posts on popular papers rather focus on making posts on niche papers.
Goal is not to teach beginners (there are already so many on the internet). My breakdowns will usually be in-depth, and I assume the reader knows their basics well. I would really like to read posts which give a quick and fairly in-depth overview of papers, but I did not find any on the internet that I liked (there are quite a few YouTube channels though). I could not find any such blogs, so I decided to maintain one.
WARNING: I’m not an expert, and I’m just learning. Let me know if I make any errors anywhere.
In the days of AI slop, spelling and grammatical errors are watermarks of human generated content.
Research Projects
I have few little ideas. I’ll publish them as soon as I complete working on them.
Contact Me
You can contact me via X (formerly Twitter) where you can find me as @psidharth567
Or you can email me at psidharth567@gmail.com