Sudhir Tiku, Futurist, TEDx Speaker, AGI Believer, AI Ethicist on LinkedIn: #shibuya #ai #asia #tokyo #ai #dinion #mic #shibuya (2024)

#Rameshwaram Café.#Greek connection.#Bangalore.In that sense, the value of things is the value we attach to them.If this happens, meaning and purpose follows.The business trip to #Bengaluru, this week,offered a sense of this and the decision to have dinner at the popular #Rameshwaram Cafe offered authentic awareness.Strangely, I lost this awareness that I was standing in open air and eating; I lost this awareness that we had a very long day; I lost this awareness that it was a bit more warm than usual; I lost this awareness that high decible traffic was buzzing by. I only seemed to gain this awareness that we were engaging, with banter and seriousness, about the feeling of the day and the use- cases of Visual analytics and AI. I gained this awareness that colleagues were making the best out of the current technical configurations and creating deep rooted opportunities. I had this awareness that I had so many meaningful and talented #connections at work. I had awareness of positive vibes.I also gained this good awareness that #dosa was laced with art-fed layers of authentic taste and that dense coconut drink was melting in my mouth. What followed was #Motivation.I recalled my teacher at Rome who said "Motivation is not an idea but a creation."The Myth of Sisyphus, teaches us about this creation. You should read this. It can add a story to your mental encyclopaedia.Get you coffee !! Here is the story, in brief, for you.Sisyphus was this mischievous Greek hero who chained"Death". So people started, to not die, and this created population imbalance. The powerful Zeus came to know of this and punished Sisyphus badly.The punishment was to move the heavy boulder ( rock ) up and down the slope forever. Zeus gave this task to Sisyphus to offer him no hope and consign his life to everlasting meaninglessness and absurdity. The punishment was to make him a slave of the situation.Sisyphus created a different mental model. Instead of seeing the punishment as a task, he saw it as a journey. A journey where the rock, the mountain, the air, the surroundings and his fatigue became a part of his larger view of things. Sisyphus embraced the drudgery as a creation of a new experience with its shades of joy and sorrow and made himself bigger than his fate. He created Motivation for himself and his punishment became a joyful spiritual exercise.That was the myth and you can interpret it the way you want but consider it's pragmatism from a thinking point of view.As I prepare to go back to Singapore, I feel like going back to #Rameshwaram cafe on my way to the airport. #Lemon Idli and #Filter coffee this time. Come, join me.* The views are personal.* Original: Not written by AI.

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#TheTuringTest#AI#13 year old boy Eugene. No, it is Eugene Goostman13 year old bright boy.Lived or Lives in Odessa.We always have metrics or standards to compare, evaluate, progress and perform. Since AI is the flavour of the season, it is nice to remember Alan Turing, the famous computer visionary, in whose name we have the metrics for evaluating general intelligence. The Turing Test. The famous Turing test The test is real and and one of the components, it has, is to get a sense of the common sense of the participant. Many intelligent people and visionaries have failed the test. So I assumed the test cannot be gamed.So Eugene, the sunny boy, participated in the test and while I read different versions, he seemed to have passed the very difficult Turing Test. At a young age. Impressive.When ? How ? 13 year old boy, lovely.Let me first explain the test in simple words. The test is to ascertain if a machine can convince ( fool) a panel of judges ( humans ) into thinking if it is a human.So the truth is that Eugene was a computer program, a bot, who pretended to be this evasive boy with limitation of language and convinced the panel that he was human. This was in 2014. That year was the 60th anniversary of Turing death. The bot called Eugene convinced or fooled 33% of the human judges that it was human.On a deeper level the aim of AI cannot be to fool humans. It is expected to create upsides and the chance to do so is big if we steer it in a responsible manner. So do we need better metrics ?The Turing test needs a reboot. The test should include awareness and comprehension of language, may be understanding of the cognitive/mental models and having sense of the physical world. This is too ambitious right now but do we not want AI to be better at many things which currently it is not ( in some domains). It is already better than humans in some domains. While you think a bit and I hope that bots don't troll me, I wish my Muslim connections and friends:#Eid Mubarak. * The views are personal.

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#UnsuccessfulIf you are always successful, always winning and always announcing your new trophy with glamour, then this post is not for you. You may skip reading this. I respect your stardom and wish you well. 👍This post is for those who continue to work hard despite the last loss. This post is for those who struggle but are not ashamed to show vulnerability. This post is for those who encountered many defeats but don't feel defeated. This post is for those who may not be flamboyant, don't have a trophy, but are working to create value that will last. This post is for those who don't look for applause to get motivation. The post is for those who are feeling disappointed, but deep inside, know they will do all possible to turn things around. This post is for those who know better things will arrive and get ready for it. This post is for you. This post is for, may be, me.But then sometimes, it is not bad, to not get, what you wanted. Failure helps us to know who we are and where we lack. It opens us against the mirror and shows the degree of our resilience. Success is a Great teacher, but Failure is the Greatest teacher. Are you feeling disappointed due to any reason? Be truthful. Seems you are. May be time to treat disappointment as a trophy and tame it. How? 1. Reflect: Give time to yourself. Make sense of why it happened. Understand the reason. If it is within your control, steer it. If out of your control, seek help or accept it. 🙏🏿2. Adjust: Adjust your expectations. At college, I secretly felt, I could defeat Gary Kasparov at chess. In the end, he was defeated by Deep Blue supercomputer but look at my unrealistic expectations. It is laughable, 😂. Aim correctly or else the blame game starts.3. Stop: Don't linger with your negative emotions too much. Grieve, reason, learn, unlearn and move on. There are always better things waiting for us. ✋4. Look up: When disappointed and stressed, exercise can be a companion. #Mental health is your responsibility. See a movie, read that book, meet friends. Of course, you know more techniques and can share, but the crux is that the Race always continues. You can lose the 100 meters, but you may end up winning the consuming Marathon. Read this as a metaphor as I respect all short distance runners. You are a different animal. You are a different tribe. You are a different leader. You are a different follower. For you, being unsuccessful is the start of that lasting and meaningful success.Enjoy your upcoming weekend. Success is round the corner.

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#ATx Singapore #AI #Visual Intelligence ATx is Asia's flagship technical event featuring innovation and latest trends and advancements in technology. The show comes to #Singapore and such a honour to speak in the show. Registration link: https://lnkd.in/gC4DbFsd

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Why #AI can make you #anxiousQueen Nefertiti.The one on whom the sun shines.1371 BC.#Nefertiti was a queen of Egypt who made many uneasy by challenging the prevalent beliefs of those days. She played a key role in making the worship of the sun God, Aton, popular. Her iconic bust is on display at the Egyptian museum of Berlin.And arrived Sophia in 2016, as one of the most sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) humanoid robots,who is able to interact with people and make human-like expressions. I was not surprised when I read that she was modelled after the ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti. They look very similar to me. Both of them challenged the norms and created unease.Maybe, it was needed. As the hype, promise, performance, improvement, commercialization, specialisation of AI continues; it no longer stays a technical topic but becomes a social, moral and political topic. But one thing is clear. It is making us ( humans ) uneasy. Why?Typically we become unsettled when any entity challenges our beliefs about the uniqueness of our abilities. We live in this myth and reality that we are the best species ever designed/evolved and no one can challenge our judgement, progress, role or place on the value chain. So any entity, like AI,which comes close to our perceived abilities, in some areas, makes us feel weird. This is also explained by"#UncannyValley theory " credited to Japanese professor Masahiri Mori San.In his essay, Mori San explains the uncanny valley by taking the example of a prosthetic hand, which is quite similar to a human one. When we realize that it is not human, we feel a sense of eeriness. If we were asked to shake hands with it, we may feel a sense of fear and disgust.This deep-seated unease is because of our inability to distinguish between "us" and those who are not like, " us". It is a tribe thing at a larger scale.Scientists attribute this distrust and discomfort to our primal feeling of needing to be in control. With AI, we can lose that sense of control. The good part is losing control does not mean losing sight. We have expertise of having survived, three hundred thousand years of disruptions. We can steer out of the uncanny valley by designing and developing ethical,wholesome and responsible AI. This kind of AI can create upsides and use cases which make life more meaningful and purposeful. This Sunday morning, I prayed to Sun God, the one, Queen Nefertiti asked us to pray.* Views are personal.

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#D for Diversity #How women think better.We celebrated the international women’s day recently. Continuing the relay, by sharing this interesting and insightful video. Good #lessons in the video.✍️Out of loop.

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#Age 23 to 34.#Reverse Mentoring You are vocal.You have an opinion. You have the numbers. You choose.You have the choice.You have the new skills. You are possibly one of the 60% of users or more, who could be using this platform. That is the statistics. Hence, you can be the change maker. I trust your tribe.Your enthusiasm and your cynicism is visible. So I requested one of you to #reverse mentor me.You were not from my workplace, you were not from the tech industry.That was the advantage.The learning could be honest for me.We started with a deviation. As per the conventional rules of reverse mentoring I was the recipient of the advice, hints and observation from you. However, you insisted that we agree for a two way conversation. You wanted to equally gain from my experience. You explored if we could give 8 pointers to each other for consideration.I started and below were my 8 pointers for the young man for his early professional life.1. Overperform, to get separated from the crowd.2. Listen more, when you feel it is least needed.3. Take risk. May be calculated.4. Don't loose balance between what makes you and what you make.5. The early days are not about what you earn but about what you learn.6. Have a voice and defend your values. 7. Make a network in your industry.8. Find your passion, if not found.It was my turn to listen to the 8 pointer advice.Here is what I noted down.The observation was sharp and personal compared to my generalised advice.1. You should have listened to me first but you were too keen to lecture first.2. I could not understand point no. 4 above. You can do better than this.3. I don't agree on earning part. I want to earn as much as I deserve. I don't equate earning and learning.4. I fully agree on showing up and voicing opinions. 5. I want to make network outside my industry also. You too focussed on professional portfolio management.6.I take risk but I make my manager part of it. I will not become a scapegoat if things fail.7. You should pick up some sport, you may not be fit.8. You ........He did not complete the eight point but even the 7 were enough to shake me up. It was real mentoring. I was the student in real terms here. I recalled what Socrates, the Greek philosopher, said few thousand years back." ✔️ When the student is ready, the teacher arrives "* The views are personal.

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#Monday Vibe. You can GET what you want if you help others GET what they want.

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#Herath#NostalgiaThis late evening, it is a personal post. Today there is no discussion on AI, which is my favorite topic.It can wait for a day. Tommorrow, it is the Hindu and Kashmiri festival of #Herath or Mahashivratri. I want to tell you more about it. Whatever little I know of this culturally deep festival comes from my memories of a three storied, wood heavy house in Kashmir, which I called “ Garee” or home. I left Kashmir long back, as a teenager, but Kashmir has not left me. This happens to all the refugees who stay homeless in the enclaves of their souls and always yearn to go back to the lost lands. Coming back to #Herath festival, I have vivid memory of me and the competing cousins waiting to get that share of walnuts from the elders and cracking them to eat with sugar. Sugar also did not leave me easily. #Herath is derived from Sanskrit word which means Night of the Hara. Hara means God Shiva.The festival is the anniversary of the marriage of Lord Shiva and Goddess Uma. She is also known by the name of Goddess Parvathi.While giving us walnuts, which are linked to many rituals of this festival, what stuck to my good memory was the four sections of this special nut are said to represent the four Vedas. We were advised to eat more of walnuts, as in the dance of evolution, walnuts represented the folds of the brain and eating of walnuts meant a chance to become more brainy. I did not become brainy and stayed dull for most of my life.In that three story home of ours in Narpirastan in Kashmir, I still recall the fervor and pomp of festival of Herath in our big hall on the ground floor. There was the spiritual Vatuk Pooja or symbolic prayers which was followed by delicious food, which was followed by Kharach or gifts the next day, where children would get some small money. I would wait for my Kharach the full year and would get a copious share. For some reason I was the favorite child of the family. I used it to buy books.I recall the elder’s of our family filling two big vessels with walnuts and decorating them with flowers and a red thread. They would draw the holy signs on them. There were also other smaller pots which represented other deities and I used to be awe stuck by beautiful imagery.The prayers would start with invocation of Lord Ganesha and concluded by blowing conches. I was not good at this part and was always taunted by my cousins.The food that followed was royal with so many vegetarian Kashmiri dishes. Some of our relatives also made non- vegetarian dishes. This festival was and is a diverse and inclusive festival making it my favorite. I still cherish and relish that big family feeling of this festival which I miss so so much.# Herath is a festival which not only connects me to my past but also makes the memories more Valuable. I will not trade them for anything. Herath Mubarak to all !!

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