We – the collective humanity – have always loved the concept of efficiency. “Better, Faster and Cheaper” have always appealed to us. But over the long term, efficiency has not always been in our best interests, perhaps because we never knew when to stop. It follows a fairly consistent pattern that goes like thisContinue reading “We can’t help it – we will alway mess up our future in our quest for convenience !”
Monthly Archives: April 2019
Do we need a better North Star for AI than the Turing Test ?
Almost 7 decades have passed since Alan Turing asked “Can Machines Think?” . It’s hard to define what thinking means – and it continues to be hard today as it was in 1950. So Turing took a pragmatic approach and redefined the problem as “Can a computer behave like a human being?”. It was absolutelyContinue reading “Do we need a better North Star for AI than the Turing Test ?”
Cultural Empathy
A client of mine gave me a very nice compliment today in a meeting – he said something like “You very naturally used the word colleagues instead of employees, and that is something very unique to our culture. How do you adapt like this?” . My honest answer was “After a long time spent inContinue reading “Cultural Empathy”
And Vijay Says... 