Still remember the heyday of Computing – the 60’s and the 70’s when the input was a punched card reader or a teletype. We have come a long way from then. From there we are in a mouse and keyboard input transitioning to voice. The future will be voice and thought interfaces. Your kids and…
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If you were to ask me the time, I would’ve looked at the watch and told you the answer. If you had asked a crow what time it is, it would surely have said, the time is ‘now’. A crow does not have an external reference point for time. However just as we have a…
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Human beings are also machines, albeit a complex one. However, we do not have the copyright of what constitutes ‘intelligence’. The most common form of intelligence is ‘pattern recognition’. You require a lot of memory for that. As our ability (30 billion neurons) is limited, as compared to modern AI, they will inevitably get ahead…
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The four parts of the mind To succeed we need to understand how the mind works. The mind is nothing but an expanse of collective memories and experiences. The mind consists of four parts : memory (karma) intellect (buddhi) ego (ahamkara) chitta (soul perception). Of these, the first 3 are very active in most people.…
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Binary GOD Zeroes and Ones explained Why do we need two bits (zero and one) to represent information? The answer is quite simple. If there were just one bit, how would we know the difference between an object like say an apple and an orange. If we say that ‘0’ (zero) represents an apple, an…
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Man-Machine Intersection Painting is what you see. Poetry is what you feel. Inside every painting is a flow. Some of us resonate with it. Some don’t. For those of us who do, we get a distinct feeling. And that is the poetry hidden within the painting. Similarly, when we read a poem, we are looking…
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Being human in the age of AI Human beings are made up of stories. Every human is a story playing out his/her memory in the arrow of time. These stories are nothing but our karma which gives rise to our habits or rituals. The more, certain types of karmic impressions, the deeper the habit. However,…
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