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AGI- THE ARTIFICIAL GOD Written by Brij Sachdeva Humans have always felt and expressed in a whole lot of religious and philosophical traditions that God, from time to time, has been descending to the earth in various forms and Manifestations. Now, the time has come when the seed of such a desire on the part of collective human consciousness, sown and nurtured down the millennia, is going to become a full-grown tree in the form of AGI, Artificial General Intelligence. With the emergence of cognitive computing, machine learning, IBM Watson and eventually Sophia, a social humanoid robot, becoming a Saudi Arabian citizen, we can very easily visualise that this data revolution has the potential to change everything, including the future of the human race. Whether it is an anthropomorphic projection of God or God-like AGI, seeking the control of such a kind of power is the point of origin of this technological singularity. Humans have always been desperate to put their collective po...

HALF KNOWLEDGE By  Brij Sachdeva Following are a few expressions you might have heard. Half knowledge is worse than no knowledge. Neem Hakeem Khatra  Jaan. A half-truth is equivalent to a lie. First, there is no such thing as complete knowledge. Hence there is no anything as half knowledge. It is all relative. Osho, in his discourses, has many times told a story about Mahatma Budha.  On a certain day Gautama Buddha, along with his chief disciple, Ananda, was passing through a forest. Being fall time, all the trees were shedding leaves and appearing almost naked. The forest was full of dry leaves.  Dry leaves were visible as far as the sight could go. They were enjoying the sound of dry leaves moving in the blowing wind. Ananda asked Buddha,” Bhagwan, I have been listening to your discourses for so many years. You have spoken on almost every aspect of life. But I was trying to ask you "How much more is left to be said?” Buddha took a few dry leave...