A Blog about Technology and Innovation

 Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhCzX0iLnOc AI is known for disrupting many industries. In an experiment, the speaker fed an AI application all the different flavors of ice cream in order to obtain a new flavor of ice cream from the AI application. The AI came with flavors like Pumpkin Trash break, Peanut Butter Slime, Strawberry Cream Disease. Clearly, all of them not fit for human consumption. In movies, when something goes wrong with an AI robot, it is usually because it doesn’t want to obey humans any more. However, in real life, the AI is not smart enough for that. While AI is able to understand things, it is not able to make sense of the world as well as humans. In reality, AI does not even know what a human really is. While AI will do what we tell it do, it may not entirely do it the way we want to, resulting in an outcome that is not desirable for us. For example, if we ask AI to assemble a robot and get from point A to point B, it may not assemble a r...

  Everyday we as humans are integrated with more and more technology around us in the digital world. The problem is we are starting to blur this line between reality and augmented reality, as we integrate this technology, we are allowing technology to augment us. The world is changing very very quickly. In 80s, there was a rise in virtual reality. There were headsets which you can put on your head and it would make a very immersive experience. But it was overshadowed with the rise of internet. However, people could see that there was potential for this technology. The speaker gave an example of a project that he did for his University. A wheelchair that works by reading the mind of the person sitting on it. That needed integration of the AI in the wheelchair and the wheelchair could think for itself. The wheelchair had cameras that work like the eyes. This was back in 2008. And you can imagine the advances in technology since then. The rise in virtual reality went into a ri...

  This blog is a summary of a blog published on Psychology Today with the name Slow Hunches, Curiosity, and Innovative Ideas: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/learning-work/202002/slow-hunches-curiosity-and-innovative-ideas To start off, the blog beautifully sums up what a Slow Hunch really means: To be following a slow hunch is to be at the  fuzzy edge  of our current knowledge. It is to be actively putting vague intuitions into words and building a conceptual map at the edges of understanding. Slow Hunches basically mean being at the edge of a scientific discovery. The definition came about in a book by the name, Where Good Ideas Come From. In this brilliant book Johnson shares similarities and differences of innovative ideas that develop over long periods of time with one-off ideas. He says: “Most hunches that turn into important innovations unfold over much longer time frames. They start with a vague, hard-to-describe sense that there’s an interesting...