Friday, September 18, 2009

NI to drive AI

Many a times we have come across the comparison of the human mind and the computer. Nothing new about saying that Manas (sensory part of the body) is similar to the various input devices of a computer, chitta being the memory out of which we have the active (RAM) and the passive (ROM) types and buddhi which is the CPU.
Here comes the interesting part, the concept of Artificial intelligence (AI). What is that component in the human mind (Natural Intelegence) that would be the key driving factor for a AI system? The answer to this lies with what we call ahankara, although we use this word very often as a negative notation but this word has got a much deep rooted meaning i.e. ‘I’. Ahankar is all about one individual stating his decision. The influence of this decision forms an additional input for his Buddhi. This is where the key to developing an AI system lies. You might notice a child of one year also has Ahankar. It is there with a person right from the time he is born. Just think of a situation where you are trying to stop a baby from touching a candle flame. Will the baby listen, it wouldn’t, why is it? This is because the baby has never experienced the physical pain that is caused when we touch a burning fire. Similarly an AI system would actually go ahead and try to experience this very act to know what the outcome of such an act is.
What made the baby to do such a thing? It was the Ahankar. But will this Ahankar still drive the baby in the future if he sees a candle flame. Maybe yes or may not. This is determined by how much strong is his Ahankar. An AI system that is being designed for war would require a much stronger Ahankar than those that would be used for domestic purposes.
Remember the Agent from the famous movie Matrix, the movie portrayed the Agent as someone having a strong Ahankar. In reality it was not the agent but the matrix (system) that was driving him. The system had a strong urge to beat Neo. And nothing would stop it from trying to do that till the very end, even if it meant self destruction.
An AI system will also be dependent on Manas and Chitta. Ahankar would be the driving factor, but physically it would be a very small component of this entire system. The size of the sensors (Manas), memory(Chitta) would be much huge, not to forget processing capabilities. The buddhi would be used to control the level of Ahankar required. A catastrophe is certain case when Ahankar takes over the Buddhi. Therefore this should always be kept in mind.

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