We have come a long way with AI. Chat-GPT that uses a large language model (LLM) is nothing but an early chapter in the story of AI. Chat-GPT and other AI assistant Chatbots have several applications but they do hallucinate facts and manifest that they lack planning and reasoning skills required to complete high school level math problems. Chat-GPT...
Between Scalable Efficiency and Scalable Learning
Our society has been running all its institutions on scalable efficiency. We became part of this model with the advent of Industrial Revolution. The industrial revolution produced our society and our families. We have become workers domesticated to labour with great efficiency for the Industry or a corporation. Our efficiency is scalable and is reflected in our salaries and...
ER ( Extended Reality) and the Exploding Future
Success of disruptive technologies is connected with their ability to democratise technologies. Our excess to these technologies grow by leaps and bound. They are immersive technologies that enter our lives transforming our total experience. ER or Extended Reality one of the most important disruptive technologies that is growing by the minute. It is challenging our Mind/Body binary and seems...
Disruptive Technologies and their Challenges
We are facing disruptive technologies in several ways . They completely change our life. Old disruptive technologies were electricity, television, airplane etc. They completely transformed the way we lived our life . Today we are on a threshold of different disruptive technologies. Besides AI, we have several other disruptive technologies that are ready to touch our life in the...
Between Life and Web life
Walter Benjamin says when exception becomes the rule , law becomes indistinguishable from life. The biopolitical apparatus too has become indistinguishable from life. The processes of its policing and production of our self are invisible. The means of control has become micropolitically precise. Power does not operate top down. It is operates as an oceanic force of nature. It...
Going Astray , Embracing Other Life
We are living in a society of control. It is not an exaggeration to say that today our imagination, thinking and expression is controlled . It seems these controls are automated because of the AI and therefore, it also appears that we cannot automate our way out of the traps of these machines that seek to impose themselves as...
Generation of Self and Digital Cultures
Our life on the wings of smart phone has entered the digital cultures. Digital cultures are performative cultures. It is not just that they based on high tech are performing for us, we too are performing on these platforms. This means technology is performing for us and intimidating us. It is as if the digital technologies powered by the...
Theology of Religion
Theology of religion has come a long way from the nomenclature of people other than Christians as pagans, heathens, non-Christian to people of other faith. The crux of the issue is not lexicology and the significance of the role and place of salvation in these other religions. The exclusive belonging to the visible Church for salvation is no longer...
Encoding Ethics in AI
We cannot simply apply the utilitarian approach to AI. If we do that the so-called trolley problem will be served by killing one person in order to save five human beings. This mode of thinking is certainly not valuing human life. Besides, no harm to humans or the Asimov’s first law or even Kant’s categorical imperative will not prevent...
Theology of Speed
We live in an accelerated society. What is this acceleration doing to our faith? Is there a theology of speed? Kosuke Koyama in his book, Three Mile an Hour God, appears to strive to present such a theology. Such theology is an urgent need of the hour as the faithful as well as the leadership in the Church are...
