Monday, November 7, 2011

AI:Can Intelligenece be artificial ?

Om Sai Ram,

I have been teaching this subject of AI for quit long. The main aim is to create intelligent machines and if some machine or object depicts some kind of intelligence then it has to be rated as artificial. This is purely an occidental egoistic view.

I disagree with this kind of superficial superiority of homo sapience. Reason being that the so called intelligence exhibited by machines , particularly the computers is limited by the intelligence of the programmer who has written the inference mechanism and the level of knowledge base (KB) created from or by the experts. If there is a fault in the program the inferences would be faulty. Similarly if the KB is insufficient or uncertain, so would be the results. So where is the intelligence of the machine?. And why call it artificial.

On the contrary, the orient view is that every object has some kind of consciousness. There are umpteen examples which can be quoted from history, puranas, and personal experiences. For example the telepathic coordination between Maharana Partap and Chetak are well known. Ahilya bai turning into stone and back is very well known story from Ramayan. A mountain started wailing when it was not used by Lord Rama for construction of the setu over ocean. Only after the assurance from the Lord, the mountain was pacified. In the next avtar, Lord Krishna used the same mountain to save the peasents from the wrath of Indra, the rain god. The mountain is very popularly known as Giriraj ji.

Try to abuse your tools and you will find that they do not deliver. The pen with which you scratch your back or poke your ear will never result in a worth while research paper, book, essay, prose or poem. Let some body else place shoes on your pillow in your absence and remove them before you retire for sleep. Would you get a sound sleep? - definitely not. The experiments of Basu with vegetables and plants also confirm that they cognize there surroundings and events occurring around them

In fact, Sai Ram says that every seemingly non living thing is living and has a level of consciousness. कण कण में भगवान्। Thus there are emotions, feelings, consiousness, and intelligence of there own in the objects, which otherwise are considered as non living.

So, the objects have either no intelligence as per the western view or they have intelligence of their own as per the oriental belief.

A. K. Sharma


Thought to Ponder...


The Vedas declare that God prevades the body in the form of essence (rasa)

Bhagwan Sri Satya Sai Baba

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