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Vishal Thakkar
Vishal Thakkar

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AI needs control mechanisms

🧠 AI is evolving faster than our ability to interpret it — and that’s both exciting and humbling.

Recently there’s been a lot of chatter about a quote attributed to Google CEO Sundar Pichai that Google doesn’t fully understand certain behaviors of its own AI systems, especially when they show “emergent capabilities”.

To be clear: he did talk about how modern AI models sometimes exhibit skills or responses that aren’t easy to explain, partly because these models are trained on massive datasets and develop complex internal patterns that aren’t always transparent to engineers. 

That doesn’t mean the AI is “thinking” or teaching itself languages out of nowhere rather that its behavior can surprise us, and this highlights a vital point: as AI becomes more capable, we need robust tools and frameworks to understand, interpret, and govern these systems responsibly.

🌍 Let’s keep pushing for innovation and transparency in AI because understanding what these tools can really do matters for business, society, and ethics.

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