Artificial Intelligence

I was pondering over Artificial Intelligence and what it would be like ?
and if I have to program one into existence , what would I need to program it to do !
which led me to look back at evolution of life , to seek some of the answers to questions like What is intelligence? how did natural intelligence evolve ? Why am I intelligent and the Dog on the street is less intelligent ? I kinda Zeroed in onto this thought that :
Intelligence in its raw form, is indeed the most efficient tool of survival .
The Intelligence that we talk of in terms of IQ or cognitive power is basically a very very specialized and applied form of this basic tool of Survival.
Lion has raw strength , cheetah has speed , Elephant has size , Ants have huge numbers of themselves , Humans ? yes Humans have Intelligence !

Now this Intelligence was such a brilliant tool that nature gave to humans that hardly 10% of it he used and managed to survive in Nature! This is like the prime achievement of all other spices
- To survive . But Humans got a tool so fertile that mere survival was not enough for it
to satisfy its sense of achievement ! The human intelligence went on (applying itself) to make life easier for humans as in if for survival of a specie , a specie needed to score 50 on the Survival test....intelligence (as a tool of survival) went on to score 60 , 70 ,80 , 90 , 99 ...... till Human dominated the world.
For example :
1. Even though not naturally autotrophic , intelligence told man how he could produce food for himself , by agriculture and breeding , and need not waste time or be uncertain
in searching for it !!Mind you, No other specie does this , except for Plants for whom its a nature's gift !

2. All the maths and sciences developed are essentially human intelligence applying itself
to make life easier and ascertaining survival of man !

So now I have a fair fundamental idea about what is intelligence ! So back to asking questions
to evolution about How I can try and program intelligence or what had God done ? when he programmed it.
Evolution tells me that life began from a single celled specie which had a singular property
IT DID NOT WANT TO DIE !
the secondary property was - Reproduce as many as yourself before you die and pass on the info you generated for ease of survival to the reproduced !

All its action were governed by single point agenda - It didn't want to die and if this condition was met then it followed the 2nd property of reproducing. So the point to note by the computer Engineers is who are trying to develop AI . You need to program urge to survive in a machine instead of the traditional way of trying to program by - infinite programming - i.e programming exhaustively for all possible stimuli the machine will get in its life time.

A point to note here is even for God to produce such highly intelligent species like the human , required millions of years of evolution, in its non evolved forms animals like mosquito have some sort of programming in them that they will avoid themselves getting hit by your hands and still seek out to drink your blood which we can even program now . So essentially if we want to Invent Artificial Intelligence - we are looking at machines with urge to survive otherwise Artificial Intelligence will lose its reason to exist ! Once this is done 99% is achieved - the rest 1 % is only about programming and giving that machine with urge to survive - better mechanism to exist !

The Circle of death !

This is my 1st Mathematical blog and hence entirely technical one !

The Problem at hand was an old one :

Suppose 1000 men are standing in a circle ; with 1st man holding a gun !
1st man shoots the 2nd guy and gives the gun to 3rd who shoots the 4th
and gives gun to 5th ..........999th shoots 1000th and gives gun back to 1st
whi now kills the 3rd and gives gun to 5th ..... the cycle continues .
Who will be the last Survivor ?!


All varied approaches were tried but answer was reached by 2 ways only
1. Brute force of actually killing 999 people on paper to find the survivor
2.Writing computer program to find the solution

Both were done! 1st by me , 2nd by my friend Shalabh and answers matched 977th person would survive ! Shalabh's program went 1 step ahead , coz it was written for N no. of people !
i.e it accepted how many people did we want in circle of death and calculated the last survivor in each case !

The program made me think and plot the list of survivors against no of people involved in the circle of death! and what followed was beauty of maths revealing itself !


Total no of ppl and No. of the Survivor

( n = m )
n = No of ppl in the circle ;
m = Position of the person who survied the shoot out !

1 = 1st

2 = 1st
3 = 3rd

4 = 1st
5 = 3rd
6 = 5th
7 = 7th

8 = 1st
9 = 3rd
10 = 5th
11 = 7th
12 = 9th
13 = 11th
14 = 13th
15 = 15th

16 = 1st
17 = 3rd
18 = 5th
19 = 7th
20 = 9th
21 = 11th
22 = 13th
23 = 15th
24 = 17th
25 = 19th
26 = 21st
27 = 23 rd
28 = 25 th
29 = 27th
30 = 29th
31 = 31th



The series of odd numbered survivors repeats itself each time growing in a specific way !


1 => 1st cycle 1 = 2^0 element Total =1


1 3 => 2nd cycle 2 = 2^1 elements Total =1+2= 3


1 3 5 7 => 3rd cycle 4 = 2^2 elements Total =1+2+4=7


1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 => 4th cycle 8 = 2^3 elements Total=1+2+4+8=15


1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 => 5th cycle 16= 2^4 element Total=1+2+4+8+16=31 .
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The elements in each cycle grow as the power of 2 !

So now according to problem under consideration
n = 1000 ;
Aftr completing 9 cycles of growing odd series
i.e 1+2+4+8+16+31+64+128+256 = 511 elements are done

now cycle having 2^10=512 elements begins ;
n = 1000 corresponds to 1000-511 = 489 th odd no in cycle containing 2^9 elements

(
1000 = 2^0 + 2^1 + 2^2 + 2^3 + 2^4 + 2^5 + 2^6 + 2^7 + 2^8 + 489
= 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + 32 + 64 + 128 + 256 + 489
)

Thus the person having 489th odd no. will survive the shootout of 1000 people !
i.e. (2*489 - 1 ) = 489th odd no. = 977th person will Survive!


Now using above concept, survivor in case of N no. of people in circle of death can be solved
with ease !

An Analogical Epiphany !

Well I was discussing about the power of Human Imagination , which has been a long time favorite topic of mine to ponder upon , with my doctor and pharmacist friends, which is when the epiphany struck me! The situation under consideration was
"Could a person blind by birth , imagine what was vision or how would it be ? "
To test the power of Human imagination - I wondered
"When such a blind by birth person regains his vision ( due to the wonder of Medical science) , How would what he had imagined vision to be and his actually 1st experience of seeing compare ?"
It would be an enlightenment for him !
Well this topic itself is worth another blog post !
But I want to concentrate on the Epiphany derived from the above discussion !

Taking an analogy from above - if we consider "All the worlds population to be blind and if some one person gains vision - How the hell is he going to explain us ( the rest of the population ) What the phenomena of vision is ? " . He will be helpless in trying to explain us what vision is !! Try doing it yourself. Try and explain Whats Blue yellow and green to a Blind person ! You will realize that You can describe it based on pre-established refrences only ! But if these are not available - U will just have to say - Experience it yourself ; I cant tell you what it is !

Well well that is what has been said about Enlightenment by all the Greats who have achieved it in our history so far ! Experience it yourself ! So Can we dare say enlightenment is a development of a new perception ? of which we initially are bereft of ! Is it like developing new set of sensory organs to perceive something which is non existent for the commons but some few special ones have in history gained it and the no. of such people being so less that we dont have any refrences established of the same ? These special ones have tried to explain to us commoners, about this new perception which they had - in a language and refrences of 5 sensosry organs !! But we simply cant Understand - leave understanding ; we find their talk absurd Coz for us its simply not existent and will be till we EXPERIENCE IT on our own !

The Question to be asked remains that if enough no. of ppl do develop this Perception of Enlightenment in course of Human History- Would we be able to determine accurate refrences of enlightenment like we have of our 5 sense of organs and thus Bring Enlightenment into field of Practicality ?!

Religion - the medicine of our wrongdoings ?!

I had the Audacity to watch Sanskaar and Astha Channel together for about 2 hrs at a stretch !
Going through I saw about three Saffron clad bearded babas giving 'discourses' !! Well fine at the face value , but underlying all the 3 satsangs I saw a common thread wherein a dumb looking guy
who doesnt even have an ounce of serenity or piousness on his face sits amidst huge Garlands of flowers , with pictures of Gods and Goddess in the background : with tasteless extravagant and gaudy Decorations - talking anything but Philosophy !
Its fine till here ! I panicked when the the cameraman Panned the camera over the huge crowd that had gathered and was listening to this guy ! Well what was more striking was half of them weren't interested and rest half who were , were not so much interested in listening to this guy as they were in just being present ' at some devotional event' ! Some sort of a mental medicine of 'being present at such an event would wash me off my sins ' !!

When I was a chess Player , I remember a guy telling me " Nowadays I dont get Angry because I have done Advance course of Art of Living " and I was like " OHK !! even I dont get anrgy without even knowing what Art of living is " . All respect to Mr. Sri sri Ravishankar but I want you people to see that this person , doesnt get angry because He has done a Course and not really coz he understood the futility of getting angry !!

People look at religion philosophy and devotion to God not as a way of life but more so of some sort of repair mechanism !! Its same throughout all religions Jesus has suffered for you so you would be free of all your guilt if you follow him , Ganga mein Snan karlo sab paap dhul jayenge , Allah ki marzi ye nahi hua,uske marzi bina kuch nahi hota !!
Come on people grow up , stop treating religion as mental medcine for your wrongdoings !

Be Rational !

Murphy's Law demystified !

" If anything can go wrong in a given situation , it will " - That's Murphy's law, which forms the guiding principle for all the pessimistic bastards in this world ! You all must have got the more comic versions of the same stating , " your nose will itch , when your hands are greasy" or ' cylindrical object falling on floor will roll to the most inaccessible corner " etc. as email fwds.!
Why do we like to believe this shit ? Ahh ! you may say " Who says so , I believe this shit ?"
Well , you may not ! but somewhere inside it sure does click! So thought of analyzing the why does this click ?
The only reason this crap thrives is by feeding on our personal apprehensions and indecisions!
Let me tell you , The Murphy's law will affect you only if you want it to!
when its a 49 -51 situation , this laws tend to give u a morale support to bank upon if you make the 49 as your choice and that's why you want this law to apply so that you can safely curse Murphy and laugh your incapacity off ! Utter crap re ....why would the nature always go against you ? Does it not have better things to do than see to it that you fall! Any guy who ever propounded , publicised or propagated this laws , is a born loser , trying to find an excuse for his incompetence!
Well somewhere for me , this law still click ! Reason ? Simple there's a loser in me somewhere , who wants the solace that I was not responsible for what happened to me !
If you are absolutely confident, there's no place for Murphy or his laws! Does that mean I will succeed if I am confident ? Hell no! That's nature you are dealing with , with its dynamic balance of success and failures ! There is no issue if u fail , but the hypocrisy of laughing it off hailing Murphy is criminal !
So what do I do ? Forget Murphy , Stop being sympathetic to your incompetence, be responsible for and more importantly stop wanting this law to apply to u and it will not !

Physical Charoli ( poem consisting of 4 lines )

h μ c
ε G e
I bow down to Thee !
For Sans you I would'nt be !