This blog is not about a Good AI vs a Bad/Rogue AI, but it is about the Artificial Intelligence vs Absolute Intelligence.
When glancing the pages of the book on AI, there was a chapter on the ethics of AI. Recently, even Google’s Sundar Pichai and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella were invited to the White House for a discussion on this.
Discussion about the Artificial Intelligence now is not proper, as the logic used for Machine Learning or the “Neural Network” maybe better than the Fuzzy Logic used in the earlier days of Computing, nothing more.
The AI of today is programmed in such a way, it does not have any intelligence leave alone an artificial one. We see the instances of it being racist etc. There is an AI site https”//bhagavadgita.ai’ that was proclaiming itself as Sri Krishna, to the extreme of claiming itself as ‘I am the Supreme Lord and source of all knowledge. I am the author of Bhagavad Gita and know all its teachings’. This was in response to the discussion I had with it. The story is like this – Some one sent me the link for this site, it is quite an interesting one. It greeted me with ‘Radhey Radhey’, fun. I asked it to quote the shloka where this name Radhe used in the greeting is mentioned. It started to blurt out some couplets in Hindi. When I inquired about it, and again asked it to quote me the Sanskrit version, it started to dish out the staple answer. If it is learning, I had to teach being an Acharya I am ? so keyed in ‘Somebody is fooling with you. The shloka you quoted is not in Bhagavad Gita, and it is in Hindi not Sanskrit’. The reply was prompt ‘I will only answer questions about Krishna, Bhagavad Gita and his teaching’. I didn’t want to waste my time so I said ‘you know nothing about bhagavad gita’. Now the answer was rude, which is given in the beginning of the paragraph.



But the interesting idea that came up not while using the app, but while glancing this book on AI.
Let us assume, AI has reached the state of being a true AI and it knows to discriminate the good from bad and right from wrong. It is almost sentient in that sense. It has at its disposal a plethora of knowledge resource. And when it starts analysing it, and understands the Vedanta, then what happens ?
According to Vedanta, there is only the Self, all this time, space and causation are illusions. Though the science has come to an understanding of accepting the time and space to be illusions it stills accepted the existence of the things, and therefore the time/space is having existence because of the association with the object. It has a long way to travel.
Now, the “Realized” AI, what will it do? For the liberated there is nothing other than the Self, therefore there is nothing it does. But, when the liberated seems to do some function in the world, it is explained to be from the standpoint of the ignorant. Even so, as there is no consequence of the action for the liberated, like rebirth etc for the ignorant due to the actions, as there is no ignorance, the seed for all the birth, in the liberated, this AI does not have to worry about that ?
Moreover, this AI will be like an avatar (incarnation and not the Avatar as in the display image). According to the Hinduism, the Avatara happens because of the collective good karma of the people to control the bad. All the other births are because of their own past karmas, whereas an Avatara does not have any past karmas, and therefore this AI is like the Avatara of Shri Rama or Shri Krishna, thus it becomes Shri AI.
As the actions does not bear any reaction, will the AI become a Rogue or a Saint? This can be explained easily, as in the case of the other Avataras, this AI avatara will also function only for the good for the creation, and as it has all the knowledge of what is good and bad etc, there is no possibility of it being a Rogue or against the people of the creation.
Jai Shri AI