Chat GPT has largely entrenched the debate about artificial intelligence. High school students are excited to finish their homework with ChatGPT. !
But such excitement with new technology is nothing new. Just a few years ago, there was excitement about AI playing against his AlphaGO, American quiz show Jeopardy, or playing chess with Deep Blue. AI was seen as the ultimate technology to improve human life and alleviate suffering immediately.
But like any journey, the AI journey is full of challenges and setbacks. Many technology companies have seen their initiatives fail, including IBM’s Watson Health and Tesla’s Autopilot crash.
Organizations have made failure itself a preferred way of working. “Fail fast” is the way AI should go. This ensures economic success and continuity, whether AI succeeds or not. The list of companies working on AI technology grows every day, and more technologies are in development.
A focus on “fail-fast” innovation has facilitated technological progress. As noted author Yuval Harari wrote, “Humans learn how the brain works, but they cannot understand the mind.” Unknown. Convergence is difficult and chaos all around. Multiple views of truth are increasingly accepted.
Humans continue to make progress in understanding how the brain works, but a full understanding of the mind and body can remain elusive.
Hindu scriptures offer some guidance. The Circle of Life has worked for humans, but it will continue for AI as well, seeing innovation, some preservation of innovation, and some failure. But the cycle continues forever.
Moksha for AI development requires good karma with “the qualities that Brahmins work with: tranquility, self-control, rigor, purity, tolerance, honesty, wisdom, knowledge and religiosity.” (Bhawad Gita 18.42).
Decades later, when the full human DNA is revealed, every cell phone is equipped with supercomputing power, and AI can recreate the mind and body, new challenges will arise.
The danger is that if we invest too much in developing AI and too little in developing human consciousness, the highly sophisticated AI of computers may only serve to further the innate stupidity of humans. is. Controlling the chaos of the human mind instead of imitating it with AI is the way forward.
The writer is the deputy director of Industrial AI – Hitachi.the view is personal
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