Recently I read Yuval Noah Harari’s recent blockbuster “21 Lessons for the 21st Century” (21L21C henceforth) in the hardbound format. I had consumed other blockbusters of the same author in audiobook format while being driven around. One drawback of consuming books in audiobook format is it is difficult to go back and re-connect various sections of book […]
The Hypothesis Ever since I first read about Shannon’s Entropy twenty years ago, I believed that in all likelihood human brain is Entropic-Bayesian-Electrochemical device. Now, in last four years neurobiological evidence is emerging for initial confirmation of Entropic brain hypothesis1. Human brain, like any other living thing, is a play on the entropy-energy cost curve. The objective […]
Singularity is the biggest threat Nearly all futurists, who think about technology, agree that singularity is between half a generation to two generations away from today. Most of them, except notably Ray Kurtzweil, think that a superintelligent AI will be as indifferent to the needs and aspirations of humans just the way we humans are indifferent to […]
Recently, our Head of Talent Management pointed out to me that AI applications, mainly chatbots, seem carry the same biases that humans display. The irony is that it is possible, using current technologies, to engrain in AI a superior sense of morality, with logically consistent and hierarchical set of goals, and hence it is possible that AI […]