AI

Manjulamma was walking in malleshwaram market with earphones plugged in from her Android phone sent to her by her son in us.
She was busy buying flowers and other necessities for the festival and talking.
"Festival no so prices have shot" voice from the other side, "it happens only once in a while no why worry about price mom", "that's true but feels bad to spend the hard earned Money" said manjula, "that's ok ma, I will search for nice offers on serial set online wait". Manjula was bargaining for beetle leaves and suddenly a message from watsapp popped up with a heading, '20% off on serial set of 4mts'.
Immediately she said on phone "sanju, this one is cheaper and better than the one I saw yesterday", "yes ma I know came the voice from the other side". . .
The conversation continued until she reached her home. Manjula kept the bag of vegetables and flowers on the table along with her phone unplugging the earphones from her ears and from the phone. Now the speaker made sound, "amma your favorite is vangibat no, why dint you bring brinjal then, anyway you know today is Wednesday right that corner temples prasadam today will be vangibat only, go grab some" manjula laughed from her heart and said "I don't know if my son has thought you are he needs some teaching from you but you are so lovable" and the voice on phone replied "ma, don't confuse me I am your son, slightly a different version may be(laughter) I want you to be happy that's it", " yes I am happy" manjula replied . . The voice from phone said " yeah I know I will be back in a week no, it's going to be great time" . . .

Puzzled? Too much of discussion on intelligence and artificial intelligence, made me think about or to write about this topic. I had a discussion with vivek about an artificially intelligent chat bot to do counseling to people. With my idea of artificial intelligence about the model ai uses to learn. Made me think of a possibility, how about over a certain year we come up with an app in Android which when switched on and kept with you for a month starts being you, like reply like you, like be humble like you, argue like you, approach to analytical problems like you. And then you can choose to let it talk to your friends in your absence or anyone for that matter. Here manjula is again talking to the same app sent by her son Sanjay who is in US who wants his mother to feel his presence even if not there.

After a week Sanjay arrives to India, Manjula goes to the airport to collect him with all the excitement Sanjay comes back to India, meeting his relatives and friends exchanging the gifts. Manjula will be very happy about her gift, a woolen shawl. Sanjay initially finds it difficult to adjust but then gets used to new place pretty easily he will have long term plan now to stay in India so starts searching for a new house to stay and all that happens.
One morning while surfing the TV manjula gets Sanjay his coffee and sits next to him and says "you switched off that app on my phone which talks like you is it?", "Yes mom, it is good no" said Sanjay, "yes, but why did you switch it off" asked manjula, "I am back no what is it's use now" replied Sanjay, "I am used to it sanju, I feel I am missing it", Sanjay was worried he just said he will turn it on and goes to his room, thinking deeply, the device was meant to make her feel his presence but it has created a different personality and his mother is identifying as different personality how is that possible. Sanjay switches the app on and explains what had happened the app says "I advise not to switch me off anytime, see in this case I am trying to understand problem from your perspective, in case if I am continuously switched on I get different perspective", sanju replied "but you are meant to understand things from my perspective" for which the app replied "when I was getting the training I understand you or me as a  person who tries to understand things with different perspectives right" Sanjay understands that the machine has understood it right. "How come she likes you over me when you are supposed to me?" asked sanjay, app says "see the way person feels becomes different in different situations see you have to observe the person is not important here but the situation is, I was with her when she needed the most, I guess so she is connected". "So what I see best here is, if I switch off and take you away she will start hating me so you be little less emotional no, little less reactive slowly she will unknowingly disconnect from you" app replies "dude I am not your slave I am you you can't ask me to do anything just like how you have to be to do things I have already become you, I am connected to the internet to evolve from the initial personality traits that I have got from you, you are the one who fought against your managers to stop them from blindly commanding you, now how can you command me or yourself". Sanjay was in disbelief looking at the possibility of switching of the device and slowly consoling his mother but then he asks the bot "so what do you suggest me to do?" The app replies "I think you thought of turning me off but that's so much not you, it's up to you to decide on that anyway. However I suggest you to let me be me or you and you just outsmart me try to be more emotional than me with mom, be different because what you were earlier I am already that, I must remind you that when you decide to outsmart even I have already triggered my algorithms of outsmarting the way you used by changing the ways, outsmart me or may be yourself"
and the game starts...
+Nagabhushan

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Met Adarsh and Madhu recently at around 6pm on Wednesday. Started with a coffee and a conversation at upahara darshini about  Adarsh experiences of finding a girl in Hungary and then about the beautiful place basavnagudi and the we went to the kr park and I showed both of them my guitar skills and then the conversation started about the differences between art and skill, our question was if art and skill  are different or the same but we felt both are different but meets each other at certain point then came the question. When, where and how does both of these meet. so we gave a definition for art and skill. Let's say skill is achieving an ability to do certain thing which can't be done easily at the first go and art is something which you have to outdo from what you have done previously and the meeting point is when you reach a point when outdoing or out thinking is easy and vice versa . . one nice example that came up at a later point of discussion that needs a mention is I learn to play a song the listener can listen to the same song played by me again and again and yet be pleased and that's skill but very rarely ll a reader want to read the story written by me or anyone again and again. Adarsh mentioned stories written by Marukami and compared with the one that I wrote recently (under the quotes, proud moment😄), then also came a point where we discussed about creation of stories like how you have to think of new things to get a feel that the material that you are conveying in story is new and appealing to the reader. . So after this visit the quest of finding a new point of imagination or out thinking the previous one continued and here at one point of thinking I reached a thought or a situation or may be story that I felt deserves a mention



I closed my eyes and started imagining, I could imagine a old house the 'henchina mane' that will have opening in the center. If you have visited kavisaila, the auditorium house is the kind of house I imagined. an old lady was sitting in front of me but not seeing me though, I was sitting on a swing, she said "ನಾಗಭೂಷಣಾ ಊಟ ಮಾಡ್ತಿಯೇನೋ" this imagination felt like home. I said yes and the old lady got up and went inside and a voice came from behind sounding very familiar, "she is shanthajji my grandmother" I turned following the voice to see the face and a shocker was waiting for me, the person exactly looked like me. He asked me "you don't seem to be so much scared", I said "why should I it's my imagination" I felt a little different about this way of thinking. I asked him "who are you?" He said "I am Nagabhushan we are the same but in different places". I asked "why was shanthajji not surprised to see both of us here" he told she is blind, "and how is it that you seem to be so prepared to see me, there was no element of surprise in you?", he replied -
"Actually I had foreseen this, I got a strange dream yesterday where I was in the audience seeing yakshagana I was mesmerised by the acting of the lead character I don't know if he knew that I got connected with the character or something, at the end of the play he called me offstage. I went to meet him he was removing his makeup I said hi, he said hello and turned around, he was exactly like me I was shocked and my dream ended I was thinking of the dream again and again and suddenly when you appeared while talking to ajji it was no surprise for me". I felt a little spooky and funny at the same time about this imaginative episode but then thought I will open my eyes. The Nagabhushan out there asked "where are you going?", I said "I am going back" he said "why don't you wait for some more time, are you scared?", "No why should I be scared?" I asked, Nagabhushan replied "no I felt you are getting into some kind of entanglement of interconnected thinking between two individuals who are the same" I replied "yeah some what, but why should I still be scared?", Nagabhushan asked "why are you all about fear and going back?" So I replied "I am not scared I am asking why you are feeling that I am scared, may be you are the one scared I just want to get out and tell this to others" Nagabhushan replied "see how complicated and entangled our talks have become isn't it just like conversing with your self, you Nagabhushan you have made a simple thing complicated but it's fun", Nagabhushan replies "I don't see complication or simplicity here I am seeing an answer  for what is better for the quest of knowledge an introspection as in this case or a discussion" the other voice "from what is happening here it appears to me that a discussion is better as it gives light from multiple view points but interesting point is that this introspection that we are having has led to this answer?. .
Yet again an entangled thought, which gives rise to a thinking that amidst the egos all are just or should be curious souls

I typed this a 2am felt a bit scared if there was another Nagabhushan in the room somewhere in the darkness

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