Category: Sculpting

Excitement, Glee, Fear, Envy, Envious dismissal, Caution & Warning – this is how the world has responded to chatGPT, the ‘latest’ AI platform OpenAI, which has received funding from Microsoft, among others, since it became downloadable in September 2022. Not surprisingly, there have been (and will continue to be) varied responses depending on the individual and also because AI is not just technology but a business in technology. In what follows, I have woven together multiple perspectives, gathered through asking different questions, to understand the foundations of chatGPT and what it means and forebodes.

Technology & Governance, along with inequality and climate change are the themes of our lifetimes. It is so pervasive that it dominates our thinking. There are multiple dimensions but the focus here is to understand how the age-old fascination with technology has taken bizarre turns with the advent and commercialization of the internet and electronics & semiconductors, with two distinct dimensions. One is the dynamism between military and civil applications and the interaction between the two. Second is that, human beings, divided between being people and consumers, are yielding more and more to technology, which has its consequences.

As an information product, a GEIS (Group Executive Information System) is quite spectacular as it combines a panoramic view with depth of details to furnish any Group CEO a deep bird’s eye view of the entire group’s business. Deciding the level of granularity is a tough decision to make, since decisions taken by such Group CEOs have enormous consequences. An appropriately designed ensemble GEIS might aid them acquire a firm grasp of their businesses, as they expand both horizontally and vertically

This is the second instalment of the reflections on the impossibility of a generalized AI. While the first examined the issue through the prism of language, the second addresses it via our understanding of the functioning of the human brain. Sifting through different and often contrasting research in neuroscience and quantum physics on understanding how the brain functions and whether there is a mind or consciousness, this article raises the question of the possibility of a generalized AI amidst all the open questions facing us.
(I must make it clear that the research I have referred to in neuroscience and quantum physics is vastly more than I have indicated in this short article.)

The creation of a generalized AI has been a dream for many decades and we are nowhere near it. Given the nature of language, is this even possible? This is a tentative attempt to pose the question especially in the face of commendable work in NLP