Surya Prakash Jayanti

Here are some interesting quotes from the book, "Our Final Invention" - by James Barrat. The author constantly warns about the perils of AI. The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else. The National Institute of Standards and Technology found that each year bad programming costs the US economy more than $ 60 billion in revenue. An agent who sought only to satisfy the efficiency, self-preservation, and acquisition drives would act like an obsessive paranoid sociopath. Per dollar spent, computers have increased in power by a billion times in the last thirty years. Imagine a world where the difference between man and machine blurs, where the line between humanity and technology fades, and where the soul and the silicon chip unite. When our machines overtook us, too complex and efficient for us to control, they did it so fast and so smoothly and so usefully, that only a fool or a prophet would have dared compla...

This is very interesting book from Ray Kurzweil , A futurist, inventor and author. Its fascinating to imagine the role of GNR(Genetics, Nano and Robot AI) in the future. You can refer his 6 Epochs of evolution here . Image courtesy: Bing AI image generator Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. When scientists become a million times more intelligent and operate a million times faster, an hour would result in a century of progress (in today's terms). There are no hard problems, only problems that are hard to certain level of intelligence. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. There are three great philosophical questions. What is life? what is consciousness and thinking and memory and all that ? and how does the universe work ? The good news is that our lives have purpose; the bad news is that their purpose is to help some remote hacker estimate pi to nine jillion deci...

 Quotes from "My Journey Home" Within you, without you According to our surroundings and experiences, we have a particular perception of reality. When passion is frustrated, people lose all good sense. The nature of the mind is to interpret nonessentials essential. The mind creates artificial needs, believing it cannot live without them. In this way we carry a great burden of attachments through our life. Where there is faith, fear cannot exist. You may have to leave the geographical boundaries of India. However, you never have to leave Bharata, the spirit of India within. Saintly personality can be softer than a rose or harder than a thunderbolt. Quotes from "The Dark Net" Normal person + anonymity + audience = Total Fuckwad For every starry-eyed vision of future utopias there was an equally vividly dystopian nightmare The idea that technology is neutral, just a tool, is plain wrong. That's never been the case. It embodies basic choices and values of any societ...

Please don't be mislead by the title, its a book on AI. If you are wondering why the book is named like this, Author is a researcher trying to teach AI on generating "pick up lines". Thats the pickup line AI came up with 😀 . This is one of the best books I read so far on AI. Here are some quotes from the book: Programming an AI is almost more like teaching a child than programming a computer. The question AI is answering is not "what is the best solution?" but "What would the humans have done ?" The narrower the AI, the smarter it seems. The human brain is a neural network made of eighty-six billion neural networks. Most of the times, what we asked AI to do isn't what we actually wanted them to do. Give AI a goal - data to imitate or a reward function to maximize and they'll do it, whether or not they've actually solved your problem. On December 2017, Google maps directed cars toward neighborhoods that were on fire. It wan't trying to ...

Here are some quotes from the book "The Inevitable". Author Kevin Kelley talks about the 12 factors that are going to shape the world: Flowing, sharing, tracking, accessing, interacting, screening, remixing, filtering, Cognifying, questioning, and becoming. We cannot expand ourself, and our collective self, without making holes in our heart. A world without discomfort is utopia. Protopia is a state of becoming, rather than a destination. One study a few years ago found that only 40 percent of the web is commercially manufactured. The rest is fueled by duty or passion. By 2026, Google's main product will not be search but AI. AI is akin to building a rocket ship. You need a huge engine and a lot of fuel. The rocket engine is the learning algorithms but the fuel is the huge amounts of data we can feed to these algorithms. The most important thing to know about thinking machines is that they will think different. So we'll get this network of locally franchised factories,...

"Total Freedom" is a thought provoking LONG read. But if you can understand the thought behind it , your thoughts process will be shaken to the core.  Image Courtesy:  AI Generated (Dall-e) Context provided : A person observing his own brain in microscope. Few quotes from the book "Total Freedom" - Essentials of J Krishnamurthi. As we move closer to our time, this problem is inverted. Knowledge overtakes wisdom and culture surrenders to technology. People do not need guidance, they need awakening. The speaker is unimportant. The perfect man has no self; the Holy man has no merit; the sage has no fame; All three being same. No man from outside can make you free. Individual merely becomes a tool in the hands of the group or of the expert. The mind wants to escape into an illusion rather than face the suffering which will inevitably arise. Find out why you are thinking in a certain way and why you are feeling in a certain manner. Don't try to alter it, don't tr...

  Here are interesting quotes from the book 'Tools of Titans' The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. The goal of investing has always been simple: To allocate resources to improve quality of life. All of my biggest wins have come from leveraging strengths instead of fixing weaknesses. Write to please just one person, yourself. Better to have and not need than to need and not have. Work will work when nothing else will work. Many a false step was made by standing still. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty. A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. My trauma therapist said every time you meet someone, just in you head say ,'I love you' before you have a conversation with them, and that conversation is going to go a lot better. Listening is about being present, not just being quiet. Just take on the pain, and wear it as a shirt. Two words for ...