In 2011, I joined this top MNC as a contractor, which unfortunately, I left within three months to continue my other journey, albeit earlier anticipating of retiring from it post sixty. In an orientation session given by one of its Sr. Executive, the gentleman said that: one can reach to my position if one follows exactly what I’ve done in my life, else there’s no way forward. That time I recalled an old saying -> creating something in one’s own image!
Every individual wants to create some or the other thing in its own image, be it -> society, academia, markets, rules, regulations, laws, awards…….species; and unfortunately, now AI/AGI. A trivial idea to build AI in human’s image, instead of letting it evolve itself naturally. As there’s a saying, after a certain age, the deduction in human life starts as they grow older. But with evolution, it’s the opposite, as things would start adding to it, whether distinct species or intelligence or intellect, and indeed, things might go down a day, but eventually evolving back again with time. Alas, that’s not the case with human life. Once deduction commences, there’s no resurrection coming in life.
And because an individual’s quest was only restricted to build something in its own image, competing wherein 7+ billion evolutionary traits + images, and that too of same species; environment was bound to become polluted with more lethal things like -> grudges, curses, cusses, revenge, that cannot be cleansed by any climate change policy or going back to stone age, nor can be cured with incessant rebirths until achieved what desired, nor by chants; as it’s in the environment only we breathe that keeps flowing in all directions. Sense it once!
Thus, we may collate inspirations, experiences, philosophical lessons, wisdom from surroundings, but building anything in someone’s image, especially in verbatim, won’t last long or would become lethal eventually! 😊
© Pranav Chaturvedi 2023