Artificial Intelligence

Ramnath during 45 years professional career journey observed change over processes from verbal to handwritten, typewriter written, computer, software, advanced software and now observing Artificial intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence is much, much more than robots. AI sometimes referred to as Cognitive Computing, is a collection of capabilities that allow computing machines to sense, comprehend, perform, adapt, and learn. For equipment dealers, AI means computer systems that perform and enhance business activities by simulating or reproducing human intelligence with the purpose of increasing efficiency, effectiveness, and engagement. Advances in computing and data gathering have propelled AI from hype to reality.

This AI reality is already being experienced in practice. Businesses recognize its growing importance and are evaluating, experimenting with, and adopting AI. Surveys reveal that executives are expecting and realizing the following main benefits from AI investments: increased sales and profits, stronger customer experiences and responsiveness, and improved decision making by employees.

Surveys also reveal the top obstacles to taking full advantage of AI are lack of a clear AI strategy and persistent commitment, the absence of people with appropriate skills, and issues with the AI software and its vendor. Going forward, dealers that do not aggressively use AI technologies will be replaced by those who do! But recognize that it takes significant time, effort, and money to digitally transform.

Ramnath compares current scenarios with when he started his professional career journey 45 years and observes very little change to conditions of farmers and unorganized sectors working.

If there were no limit to what Artificial Intelligence could know about you, it could not only supply with reading materials, but with foods, medical suggestions, social events, interesting ideas, friends, and lovers. It could also begin to help make decisions in life much the same way as Google maps now set the fastest route for travel, avoiding traffic congestion. 

On further analysis he observed we are living simultaneously in two distinctly different dimensions: one dimension is the world of matter and energy which science explores, measures, and explains. In its most advanced forms, it reveals a world where energy and matter, wave and particle intermix, and even our conventional sense of reality is replaced by an indescribable unity of space-time, reminiscent of the deepest formulations of the great mystics. But there is a second dimension, often overlooked in the scientific description of reality, a dimension that not only deserves our attention but is in fact the most valuable, and meaningful, aspect of our subjective experience as human beings. It is typically referred to as consciousness.

In course of Spiritual exploration, he observed spiritual leaders wish to draw attention to the critical fact that this several centuries ago religion was superseded by humanism, a reliance upon the subjective feelings of human beings.

Consciousness is not a mere mental experience, but includes our experience of values, qualities, and the sense of relationship which “may not contribute to our survival but make life worth living.

Several centuries ago religion was superseded by humanism, a reliance upon the subjective feelings of human beings. Today, humanism is being replaced by artificial intelligence, and the ideology of “Dataism,” the belief that all entities and processes are fundamentally algorithms, and everything, from living creatures to political and material processes are forms of data processing which will soon be better understood and known by artificial intelligence.

What will be increasingly missing is human self-awareness, the inner life as the domain of aspiration, wisdom, conscience, and what will increasingly disappear are the possibilities of true individuality, creativity, moral striving, selfless sacrifice, and transcendent awareness.

Instead, our focus will be adding more information to the glut of information, posting more self-conscious images of ourselves, authoring more self-preoccupied narratives of our lives, repeating formulaic opinions, floating on the surface of a never-ending river of external data.

And what does it mean when precisely these attributes of humanness, these values, these qualities that seem to arise beyond the human ego, are suppressed, numbed, or replaced by virtual reality, a hive mind sourced in the cloud, creating and managing our thoughts, influencing what we will pay attention to, and providing a narrative to human life authored by technocrats rather than by world wisdom traditions that recognize the ontological reality of the human being?

Already a particular group of companies—you know their names already—occupy a commanding position as gatekeepers of our collective reality. Could they conceivably become or may they already be the visible part of a rogue artificial intelligence collective, influencing, shaping, even threatening our very humanity? How can we make sure that these gatekeepers of our reality contribute to values derived from an understanding of our true humanness? This will be the responsibility of those who understand and value the mystery of being human.

Ramnath explores to contribute to responsibility————-///