IMHO, the scientific world needs atleast few more decades to understand the concept of consciousness, intelligence, space research and life in the correct manner.
This advancement will come mainly with the help of
Understanding Consciousness
Diversity and Inclusion
Human thoughts when expansive will lead to an inclusive mind.
The basis is in improving basic human ethics.
The talk of inclusion by focusing and pronouncing mainly on differences and divisions can lead to more fractures if one is not careful.
Public / Private Enterprise Debates
Lot of messages are being exchanged these days about government giving importance to private companies at the expense of public sector companies.
How are you celebrating your Vijaya Dasami / Dussehra / Durga Puja / Navaratri / Bathukamma?
Wish you all a blissful Vijaya Dasami, Dassehra , Durga Puja, Navaratri and Bathukamma celebrations.
This day reminds me of the beauty of our blissful land BharataVarsha and the culture of Sanatana Dharma.
Remembering Mahatma
Remembering Mahatma Gandhi on his birth anniversary. Mahatma is the father of the nation but also one of the key architects of this eternal land, Bharat i.e. India.
Few are destined and mandated to shape a nations history.
1. Mahatma Gandhi – Architect of Independent India
2. Sardar Patel – Architect of United India (living in Hyderabad, always indebted)
3. PV Narsimha Rao – Architect of Modern India
4. Narendra Modi – Architect
Howdy, Modi
USA and India, two major democracies of the world, complement well.
India is a land of spirituality – eternal, energetic, and the pursuit of bliss
&
USA is a land of freedom – life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
No better time than the leadership today to further it.
Howdy, Modi. wishing the event @ Houston, TX all the best.
waves of transformation in the world
Notwithstanding debates about future of automobile industry (uber/ola vs own-car), world economy will certainly be dictated by following:
– Generational/Aspirational Shift
– Business Model Shift
– Technology Shift
– Consumer Awareness Shift
Policy makers of all the major countries should be willing to address them in order to recalibrate for the new world.
Venky Rao #economy #catchthewave #transitions #aspirational #consumerawareness
Search party
Many times we don’t know ourselves.
We assume our identity to be the new clothes (new body for our soul) that we put on and forget our true self.
Then we keep searching everywhere to get self realisation.
We need to take a step back, reflect and look inside and we will be able to realise the self.
In search of truth – Blissful journeys of Venky Rao
keyūrāṇi na bhūṣayanti puruṣaṁ
केयूराणि न भूषयन्ति पुरुषं हारा न चन्द्रोज्ज्वलाः
न स्नानं न विलेपनं न कुसुमं नालङ्कृता मूर्धजाः ।
वाण्येका समलङ्करोति पुरुषं या संस्कृता धार्यते
क्षीयन्ते खलु भूषणानि सततं वाग्भूषणं भूषणम् ।।
– नीति शतकम्
కేయూరాణి న భూషయంతి పురుషం హారా న చంద్రోజ్వలా
న స్నానం న విలేపనం న కుసుమం నాలంకృతా మూర్దజా
వాణ్యేకా సమలంకరోతి పురుషం యా సంస్కృతా ధార్యతే
క్షీయంతే ఖలు భూషణాని సతతం వాగ్భూషణం భూషణం
– నీతి శతకం
keyūrāṇi na bhūṣayanti puruṣaṁ hārā na candrojjvalāḥ
na snānaṁ na vilepanaṁ na kusumaṁ nālaṅkṛtā mūrdhajāḥ |
vāṇyekā samalaṅkaroti puruṣaṁ yā saṁskṛtā dhāryate
kṣīyante khalu bhūṣaṇāni satataṁ vāgbhūṣaṇaṁbhūṣaṇam ||
– Nīti Śatakam
Translation:
Bracelets do not decorate a person, nor do necklaces glittering like the moon.Nor bath, nor smearing the body with fragrance, nor flowers, and nor decorated hair.
Nor bath, nor smearing the body with fragrance, nor flowers, and nor decorated hair.
Only that speech embellishes a person, which has been upheld with cultural refinement.
Indeed, all ornaments decay. Ornament of speech is always the real ornament.
Find your game
Recently a young student shared this with me. Not just the young graduates but most of us face this at different stages of life and feel stuck. Isn’t it?
If we can’t win a stupid game, it is time to change the rules.
If we can’t change the rules, change to a better game for us.
Let that monkey and bird play that game.
There is enough water in the world for seal and fish to not only survive but have fun and live a blissful life.
Penguin will find its habitat, so are the dog and elephant and will find their strengths to blissfully live their lives rather than feeling lost and failed.
Monkey will succeed in that monkey business since even the bird will soon leave it and soar high in the skies.
Happy Independence Day
Wishing all my friends in India a very happy and blissful independence day.
Trash
The plastic and styrofoam trash at the restaurants is a man made problem that should be addressable.
If we created the mess, we should be able to get out of it, atleast we hope.
In the name of progress, many times our civilization created short term band-aid solutions. We later understand that they are more messier than the problems they were supposed to address, if any.
Iam sure the better sense will prevail in the society and we realize some simpler solutions used earlier were better and we re”search” and innovate again 😅
The mother earth must be laughing. She has seen many civilization in its history over millennia biting to dust when the so-called progress was not inline with the greater good.
Its a cycle and we will also either get out of this junk pile or the mother knows how to discipline its children.
Artificial general intelligence
https://openai.com/blog/microsoft/
Microsoft
Invests In
and Partners
with OpenAI
to Support
Building
Beneficial AGI
I would like to believe these types of deals will focus more on creating the practical aspects of stitching together disperate narrow AI together for a greater good.
I don’t think AGI as the theoretical general intelligence platform will be a reality in any foreseeable future. The concept of AGI needs new paradigm in science and technology for it ever to be a reality.
However it is realistic to expect that over the next few years, we will move towards stitching together different pieces of augmented / narrow AI systems. These will mimic a professional and not a person. AI based Medical and legal professionals that use multiple narrow AI is what we may have that can replace these professionals.
But to create AGI with personality is no where in near future. It however provides for a good theoretical discussion and media coverage.
#AI #AGI #ML #computervision #articialintelligence #artificialgeneralintelligence #neuralnetworks #chatbots #venkyrao #iamvenkyrao
Fearlessness and Decision making – part 1
Fearlessness and decision making are part of a closed loop system feeding eachother.
Fear is a natural feature built into all the species to manage risk. Managing that fear for the best next course of action aka “decision making” is what most of the personality, leadership development that we develop over time.
Each of us make decisions all the time in our daily lives.
Postponing a decision aka “procrastination” is also a decision based on the circumstantial evidence and considered to be best course of action at that time.
Sometimes delayed decisions can lead to catastrophe similar to hasty decisions.
We need to strike that correct “balance” in this decision making. It seems even more important when it impacts larger good beyond self; e.g. teams, organisation, society and countries..
Several ways we continue to learn and enhance these as we journey along..
Few things that help us in this journey include
- personal development like yoga
- having a good set of advisors and boards
Some of these enhance our ability to deal with the two important things – fearlessness and decision making.
More details in the next post..
please share your thoughts as well..
#decisionmaking #fearlessness #entrepreneurship #leadership #venkyrao #iamvenkyrao #boards
Innovation at work
A true example of innovation and entrepreneurship at work.
Ethnographic study, passion, perceiverance, first pilot customer, continuous learning and innovation, customer delight surveys and empathy to achieve the intended outcome👍
The video is in one of the regional languages in India called “Telugu”. The innovator/entrepreneur featured in this video not conventional educated and spoke in his native language. He invented and innovated a machine for the benefit of his own community of weavers in this part of the world. He received several awards in India and also his life story was recently released as a feature film.
Artificial General Intelligence
With the current basis of our science and technology, Artificial Intelligence in any foreseeable time will only address the augmented and narrow intelligence aspect.
We will further enhance the capability of human sensory power for the regular and challenged of the world. And enhance value in niche areas. This may also be the best use of the current state of AI work in the world.
For the true Artificial General Intelligence, the roots are to be found in Philosophy, Spiritual Sciences. Most likely in ancient scriptures of wisdom. It needs for us in this generation of scientists and technologists to shed the false ego and study those scriptures keeping aside the religious and cultural affiliations.
We haven’t even fully cracked the nature vs nurture puzzle. Genetic knowledge, Morals, Ethics,Reinforced learning, expert systems incl parents to teachers to life in general…
In my humble opinion, Artificial General Intelligence is not just another technological problem to solve but its about understanding human and leads to/by wisdom. It is not going to happen anytime soon with the current direction.
AGI is the ultimate pursuit but i believe the world will explore and benefit more from augmented / narrow intelligence in the next few decades.
History -vs- ‘His’story
Today i received a message extolling the virtues of Punjab and as a tribute to its great son, Maharaja Ranjit Singh on his birthday (13th Nov 1780). Maharaja Ranjit Singh is certainly one of the great sons of this Karma Bhoomi called Bharat. The thing that irked me in the message was a reference to how king Porus of Punjab dared to stop Sikander in his world conquest. It was mainly about the use of the words Sikander and Porus, since both are
Thinking of Toilets
The famous Bill Gates shared a post recently on LinkedIn that the reinvented toilets are a part of 6 billion dollars annual opportunity for companies that are first to market. And also that they have a potential to save millions of lives. Impressive, huh?
Thinking of toilets:
In recent times, for myriad reasons, toilets have found a huge fan base. They seem to inspire/break love stories
Sardar, Operation Polo and My Grandmother
Today Prime Minister of India is unveiling a tall statue of a tall leader, Iron man of India, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. There are several discussions on his legacy.
Sardar, no doubt, is the architect of modern administratively integrated geographical India. He certainly deserves a huge respect from every Indian.
Everytime i read about Sardar, i reminisce my childhood. As a child, i grew up listening to many personal stories of India’s freedom struggle
Continue reading “Sardar, Operation Polo and My Grandmother”
ॐ त्र्यम्बकं यजामहे
सुगन्धिं पुष्टिवर्धनम् ।
उर्वारुकमिव बन्धनान्
मृत्योर्मुक्षीय मामृतात् ॥
ఓం త్రయంబకం యజామహే
సుగంధిం పుష్టి వర్ధనం
ఉర్వారుకమివ బంధనాన్
మృత్యోర్ ముక్షీయ మామృతాత్
ఉర్వారుక మివ బంధనం అంటే…..
ఇసుకలో ఆడుకొంటున్న పిల్లల్ని చూస్తుంటాం. అద్భుతంగా గుడి కడతారు. తీరికగా అలంకారాలు అద్దుతారు. తోచినంతసేపు హాయిగా ఆడుకుంటారు. పొద్దు వాలేటప్పటికి, ఆ కట్టడాలన్నింటినీ చటుక్కున కూలదోస్తారు. కిలకిల నవ్వులతో
ఆచార్య దినోత్సవ శుభాకాంక్షలు
సనాతన ధర్మాచరణలో ముఖ్యమయినది కర్మానుష్టానము.
ఈ కర్మానుష్టానమునకు ఉపకరణము దశేంద్రియ మనోబుద్ధ్యహంకారచిత్తమైన భౌతికకాయము.
దీనికి సంస్కరణపరులు మాతాపితృలు, ఆచార్యులు, బంధువులు, సన్నిహితులు, అతిథులు.
వీరంతా సదా మాననీయులు.
🙏🙏
తైత్తిరీయ ఉపనిషత్తులో చెప్పినట్లు
Making sense of science
Not everything that comes out of science labs is the right thing in the long run.
Specially in case of food and healthcare, which directly impact the human and ecological wellbeing, long term effects have to be understood.
Unfortunately
Hit Refresh
My in-laws were moving to another home. I enquired with my mother-in-law about the progress of the packing. She said it is pretty much done since a lot of junk that got piled up over the years has been discarded. She was happy that the moving process helped them clear unnecessary junk that got piled up over the years.
Isn’t it the same with our lives in general as well?
Concept of Age
The picture of Lord Padmanabha (God in Hinduism and the main diety at Thiruvananthapuram, India famous for its new found riches) is always a blissful sight for me for several reasons.
in search of truth 