Artificial Intelligence is our future

Article - Sudhir Pai

Like it or hate it. But we humans will have to face Artificial Intelligence by 2030. Are we ready for it?

So - What is Artificial Intelligence?

To different people, Artificial Intelligence (AI) means different things. For some it could be self driving cars or a robot who can be a good friend to us.

Today's computers are far smarter than most of the humans in terms of memory and computational power. But the big question is whether Robots can exactly behave and think like humans in terms of emotions? Yes - says some scientists and futurists.

Deep learning even known as machine learning will allow computers or robots to learn everything by themselves. This is interesting and at times can become even scary.

Some Top Artificial Intelligence Companies :

• Amazon
• Google
• Facebook

Many new players like Apex Technologies and Petuum are doing some exciting projects in Artificial Intelligence domain.

Career Opportunities :

Promising career lies ahead to those who learn Artificial Intelligence and Robotics like :

• Algorithm specialists.
• Artificial Intelligence scientist.
• Robotics Process Automation.
• And more ...

Good movies on Robotics :

• The Terminator.
• Bicentennial Man.
• Short Circuit.
• Robot
• 2.0
• And more ...

Books on Artificial Intelligence :

• Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark.
• How To Create A Mind by Ray Kurzweil.
• Deep Learning by Aaron Courville.
• And more ...

So - What are you waiting for?

Buy a book or google or watch an YouTube Video on above future technologies.

All the best !

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90 years young Padma Vibhushan Dr. V Shanta

90 years young and focussed, Dr. V Shanta, grand niece of renowned scientist, Shri C V Raman, is doing amazing work in ensuring cancer treatment is made affordable to all citizens of India and world.

Dr. V. Shanta, is the chairperson of Cancer Institute at Adyar, Chennai.

She regularly inspires and tell her patients not to get worried and frightened of cancer. And like any other diseases, cancer is curable and can be treated with medicines and diet.

Dr. V Shanta, first joined as a RMO (Resident Medical Officer) at Adyar Cancer Institute and have been working for last 61 years and is now the Chairperson of this institute.

Even at age 90, she is active, focussed and passionate to ensure that all her patients are taken care of and get the best treatment.

Please Google and YouTube her for more information. If you like this short article, please share it with your friends. Let's build a positive and better world.

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What is Intuition?

When human body functions spontaneously, we call it as instinct. When the soul functions spontaneously, that is called intuition. Instinct is of the body - the gross; and intuition is of the soul - the subtle.

When you are totally awake and aware, this shift happens: from the [brain’s] left hemisphere the energy moves to the right hemisphere. The male is naturally an aggressive living being, the male is constantly in struggle – the feminine is constantly in surrender, in deep trust. Hence females have a better intuition or sixth sense.

Scientists have discovered that humans appear to have two, very different “operating systems.” (link is external)  System 1 is our quick, instinctual, and often subconscious way of operating – it is controlled by our right brain and by other parts of our brain that have been around since prehistoric times, known as the “limbic” and reptilian” parts of our brain.  System 2 is our slower, more analytical, and conscious way of operating – it is controlled by our left brain and by newer parts of our brain that have only developed since prehistoric times (also known as the “neocortex”).  Researchers have found that intuition is part of System 1, which is why it comes on so rapidly and often does not make rational sense to us.  In other words, intuitive decisions are not something that we have thought out carefully with reason, but rather choices that have arisen quickly out of instinct.

In my book, THINK LIKE A WINNER, I have briefly touched upon how our human mind can be programmed for success. In my second book, LIVE YOUR DREAMS, I have discussed, how people used their power of mind to achieve their personal and professional goals.

Intuition is challenging to define, despite the huge role it plays in our everyday lives. Steve Jobs called it, for instance, "more powerful than intellect." But however we put it into words, we all, well, intuitively know just what it is.

Pretty much everyone has experienced a gut feeling -- that unconscious reasoning that propels us to do something without telling us why or how. But the nature of intuition has long eluded us, and has inspired centuries' worth of research and inquiry in the fields of philosophy and psychology.

If you want to get in touch with your intuition, a little time alone may be the most effective way. Just as solitude can help give rise to creative thinking, it can also help us connect to our deepest inner wisdom.

Intuitive people are often introverted, according to Burnham. But whether you're an introvert or not, taking time for solitude can help you engage in deeper thought and reconnect with yourself.

"You have to be able to have a little bit of solitude; a little bit of silence," she says. "In the middle of craziness ... you can't recognize [intuition] above all of the noise of everyday life." 

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Young Innovator - Story of Vignesh Subrahmaniam

Age: 29

Technical area: Software

Current position: Lead scientist at GE Global Research

As a child, Subrahmaniam had an unusual combination of interests. He was interested in mathematics as well as music. While he was fond of reading books, he liked forecasting the weather and playing the veena. He grew up to become of one the youngest and finest statisticians and data scientists in the country.

Twelve years ago, when he had to decide the course of his career, his mother encouraged him to take up the field which he so passionately adored. “My mother has always believed that to really become successful, you need to do what you are passionate about,” says Subrahmaniam.

So, at that time, when people usually opted to study for a medical or engineering degree, he went to the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

After completing his studies in 2008, he joined the global research team at the US-based products and services firm General Electric Co., where he had interned in 2005. His forte is statistical modelling for weather forecasting to solve industrial problems.

In the early stages of his career, he developed mathematical models and algorithms that added significant value to diverse industrial applications. He worked with two more researchers to develop a new machine-learning algorithm which analysed historical weather data in the Indian subcontinent to identify regions that have similar rainfall patterns. His research led to the discovery of a new monsoon region called the Homogenous Indian Monsoon Region, which later improved monsoon forecasting over large areas of northern and eastern India. His work was published in the Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (2009).

In 2010, Subrahmaniam invented an automated mixture analysis algorithm for identifying unknown substances based on its Raman spectra. This method was later granted a patent. “It was used by GE’s Homeland Protection business to identify unknown mixtures such as narcotics or drugs correctly,” says Subrahmaniam.

Though identification of mixtures from spectral data is a well-studied topic, Subrahmaniam developed the first ever method based on partial correlation to generate probabilities on all the identified mixture components. His work on this was published in the Journal of Applied Spectroscopy in 2010.

Over the last seven years, Subrahmaniam has been involved in creating a software system consists of self-learning algorithms, which analyse historical weather patterns at a location and predict the most repeatable patterns. It compares that information with the requirements for its clients, such as setting up a wind farm at that location, to come up with the best model to do so. The method has been adopted by GE’s wind business for setting up wind turbines.

Subrahmaniam has been involved in industry applications related to wind farming, power grids, transport and aviation.

“Over a period of time, the system that we have created has demonstrated verifiable results,” he says.

Subrahmaniam is now experimenting with deep learning, a new field in machine learning, which uses artificial neural networks to learn levels of representation and abstraction that make sense of data such as images, sound, and text, in a way the human brain learns and understands it.

“We are using new analytical models and deep learning for analysing historical weather data to increase the accuracy of our predictions,” he says. “We are also looking to use this model to expand our horizons and solve problems across various industries.”

Source : Google, LiveMint.

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Nobel Peace Prize 2011 - Ms. Ellen Sirleaf

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Born 29 Oct 1938), age 79, is a Liberian politician, and Nobel Peace Prize 2011 winner. She is 24th and current President of Liberia since 2006.

Ellen is often referred as "Iron Lady of Liberia" for her strong will and political persistence, and is Africa's first democratically elected female leader. Her political path has not been an easy one and she was imprisoned in 1980's for criticizing government policies in Liberia.

In her book, This Child will be great, she writes - If asked to describe my homeland in one sentence, I may say something like this: Liberia is a wonderful, beautiful, mixed up country, struggling mightily to find itself.

Given more space, however, I would certainly elaborate.

Liberia is some 43,000 square miles of lush, well-watered land on the bulge of West Africa, a country slightly larger than the state of Ohio, a lilliputian nation with a giant history. It has a population of 3.5 million people from some sixteen ethnic groups speaking some sixteen indigenous languages plus English. It has never known hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, droughts, or other natural disasters, only the occasional flood and the more frequent havoc wreaked by man. Liberia is complicated. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, Liberia is a conundrum wrapped in complexity and stuffed inside a paradox. Then again, it was born that way.

In 2011 - She won Nobel Peace Prize for her relentless efforts to bring peace, prosperity and progress for Liberia.

To know more about this great lady, please Google and YouTube her.

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Growth Mindset

Article : Sudhir Pai

It is said, universe began 13.82 billion years ago from a small dot which exploded as BIG BANG.

Since then, it is only growing and expanding.

Look around:
Everything from plants, fishes, trees, birds, animals and humans everything has grown from a small seed. Is'nt it?

Growth, abundance and prosperity is a natural instinct. Think Big. Aim Bigger. Don't feel guilty in doing so.

Some people may like your behaviour. Some may criticize you. Some may ignore you. Don't bother too much.

Keep your focus intact on growth and prosperity, and keep working towards it.

Best Wishes,

Sudhir Pai
Trainer Author - Think Like A Winner

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10 Interesting facts about beloved Shirdi Sai Baba

We all have heard about Shirdi Sai Baba and his miracles. Today, I am going to type down some interesting facts which I have heard and read.

1) Sudhir Dalvi who palyed role of Shirdi Sai Baba in film in 1977 instantly

    became a household name and people actually started worshipping him.

2) Jackie Shroff gave up smoking and drinking when he was to play role of Sai

    Baba in one of his films.

3) Sabka Maalik Ek - Simplest message given by baba to humanity.

4) Shraddha aur Saburi - Another beautiful message.

5) K V Ramani, co-founder NASSCOM, donated Rs.110 crore to Sai trust to build
    a ashram which can accommodate 15,000 devotees.

6) Sai Baba's teaching were simple and could be understood by common man.

7) He performed many miracles in his lifetime.

8) Devotees experience miracles even today.

9) He used to stay in simple house called Dwarka Mai (Hindu way) and used to

    chant Allah Maalik (Muslim way)

10) There are more than 50,000 small and big Sai Baba temples across world.

Om Sai Ram !

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How to deal with a difficult boss?

Article - Sudhir Pai

Are you one of those, who feel that your boss is very difficult to handle? You do everything in best possible way, work really hard but your boss is never happy and many times shouts at you or insults you in front of other colleagues.

Chill. Take a cup of warm or cold coffee and keep reading below article. We are going to discuss today how to manage and deal with difficult boss?

Let's start.

Observe your boss for a few days with a neutral frame of mind. Regular meditation can help you to develop a cool and neutral mindset. Understand your boss and his or her priorities. Listen to what he or she says very carefully. Try to listen to what is unsaid.

Try to understand that your boss may be a very good person in personal life but targets and deadlines can put huge pressure on him or her and that work pressure can get transferred down on subordinates.

Art of managing boss is more often art of managing the pressure downloaded by the boss. And to manage the pressure, one needs to be in cool frame of mind. Trust me folks, regular deep breathing and meditation helps to develop this cool mind.

Documentation plays an important role in managing boss's expectations. During meetings with our superiors, make a note of everything in bulleted points. After meeting, email minutes of meeting to your boss and colleagues to ensure whole team is on same page. and get assign off from your boss. On regular intervals, send him status of work allotted with deadlines and tasks completed. This will ensure, that boss is updated on regular basis of work status. Also ask for feedback and inputs from boss about the progress of work.

Open and regular communication is the way to develop and strengthen relationship with your boss and colleagues.

I hope this article has helped you to get clarity on How to deal with difficult boss?

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COBOTS - The future friendly robots

A COBOT (Co-Robot), derived from word Collaborative Robot is the future of human evolution and exciting experiences, we humans will have in near future.

Cobots were invented in 1996 by J. Edward Colgate and Michael Peshkin, who were professors at Northwestern university.

The global economy and various industries are entering a phase of renaissance. Much of more advanced technologies are still out of reach of SMEs, but COBOTs (Collaborative Robots) are seeing a noticeable spike in popularity, precisely because of their affordability and emphasis on safety.

Colgate and Peshkin were thinking and discussing on a idea where, robots and humans can collaborate with each other, work in partnership and improve overall productivity and quality of life.

With lot of research and development leading to creation of COBOTS, first introduced in factories, assembly line workers were happy to see that COBOTS are not those typically machine type looking devices, but human type looking creatures and it was actually fun working with them.

Now, picture the assembly floor of car factory staffed by COBOTS who are interacting with humans. Not only interacting with humans, they are also interacting with cars they are assembling. The future could be a customer gives a specific customized requirement and COBOTS alongwith engineers are interacting to give best possible customized solution.

Exciting Times Ahead Indeed ... 

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Life of Radhanath Swami

Radhanath Swami (Richard Slavin) was born in comforts of Chicago (USA). As a teenager, he embarked on a fascinating journey of hitch-hiking the world in search of self discovery and spirituality that ultimately led him to join ISKCON (International Society of Krishna Consciousness)

During 1960s and 1970s, there was a general disillusionment amongst European and American youth about society and materialistic pleasure and hippie movement started where unfortunately many young folks got trapped in drugs, rock and roll and sex.

 

Something similar was happening to Richard Slavin. He was young. He was confused. And he left home, leaving behind his family and comforts of US life and started spiritual journey.

Growing up in Chicago, he was restless and had plenty reason to be unhappy. Civil unrest, Vietnam war and general aversion to trappings of material life.

He wanted to be free. He wanted to experience freedom and liberation.

In his book, The Journey Home, he gives colourful details of his spiritual journey from Chichago suburubs to caves of Himalayas. he gives an intimate account of the steps to self-awareness and also a penetrating glimpse various mystic traditions across the world like Arabia, Rome, Greek and finally he lands into India.

His spiritual journey ends with becoming an ISKCON sanyasi and now heads the organization and run food program for underpriviledged kids by name of Akshay Patra where around 1.6 million school kids are fed with nutritious meals on daily basis.

Hare Krishna !

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Author - Trainer - Consultant

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The happiest man on earth - Matthieu Ricard

Matthieu Ricard is a French writer and a Buddhist monk, who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal and is been declared as happiest person in the world.

Ricard is a PhD in molecular biology from Pasteur Institute under French Nobel Laureate Francois Jacob. In 1972, Ricard decided to become a Tibetan Monk. He came to India and started studying Buddhism under master Kangyur Rinpoche.

Ricard volunteered himself for a scientific laboratory experiments at University of Wisconsin and the scientists who performed experiments found his happiness levels way above other individuals.

Matthieu Ricard undergoing experiment.

Brain scans revealed that Matthieu Ricards brain had large capacity for joy and happiness thanks to his daily practice of meditation for last 45 years.

Neuroscientist Richard Davidson wired up monk's skull with 250 sensors at university of Wisconsin as a part of research on various people with and without meditation practice.

The scans showed, that when meditating on compassion and peace, Ricard's brain produced high levels of gamma waves, those which gave joy and happiness were found in pre frontal cortex.

Daily 20 minutes of meditation for 21 days results in better memory, concentration and happiness.

So - Meditate and Be Happy.

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Tawakkol Karman - Iron Lady of Yemen - Nobel Peace Prize 2011

Tawakkol Karman gained prominence in her country after 2005 in her roles as a Yemeni journalist and an advocate for a mobile phone news service denied a license in 2007.

As Yemen's multi-sided conflict grabs headlines with it's devastating human toll on life and properties, local activists continue to press for peace and democracy.

Tawakkol Karman, a winner of 2011 Nobel Peace Prize who is also know as "Mother of the Revolution" in Yemen for her positive impact as a journalist and women's rights advocate, offered hope and optimism in her war striven nation.

She started organizing and protesting for equal democratic rights for women in Yemen and slowly and steadily this movement spread across Middle East and North African nations.

Tawakkol Karman co-founded the human rights group Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) with seven other female journalists in 2005 in order to promote human rights, particularly freesom of opinion, expression and democratic rights.

She has received numerous threats and sometimes also temptations, but she stood her ground and is working continuously for democratic rights in Yemen.

For more information on Tawakkol, you can google or youtube her.

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Roger Bannister: The Four Minute Mile

Sir Roger Bannister, is the first person to run 1 mile before 4 minutes. Till 1954, sports psychologists, doctors and atheletes believed that running 1 mile under 4 minutes is physically and psychologically not possible for any human.

And Sir Roger Bannister, decided to challenge this status quo. He decided to challenge this orthodox belief structure. He was determined to break this mental limitation.

He was born in ordinary middle class, but had tremendous passion for running.

When every other athlete in world was working on physical stamina and technique. Roger Bannister started focussing on developing mental and spiritual strength with mind power techniques like affirmations and visualization along with physical strength and stamina.

And on 6th May 1954, Roger did the impossible. He actually ran 1 mile in 3 min 59 seconds at Olympics.

And in next 1 year 25 more athletes could do the same.

Roger Bannister proved to the world that barriers and self limiting beliefs exist only in minds. We need to break them first.

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Story of Ritesh Agarwal

Ritesh is the founder and CEO at OYO Rooms. He was selected for the 20 under 20 Thiel Fellowship which makes him one of the very few Indians to have been shortlisted. He started working early in his life at the age of 13 and by 18 he was building OYO Rooms.

There is more to the unkempt looks of Ritesh Agarwal, 21-year-old founder and CEO of OYO Rooms, which one might find unusual of his age and accomplishments. Sporting dishevelled hair, shabby beard and muddy shoes, Agarwal started with coding software at the age of eight, becoming a part of a global annual forum for improving science in Asia, authoring a book on top 100 Indian engineering colleges, starting a consulting firm for foreign companies entering India, launching Oravel Stays, an Indian clone of US-based online lodging service Airbnb, dropping out of college and becoming the first Indian Thiel fellow to pivoting Oravel Stays to OYO Rooms, a branded network of budget hotels while he was just 19. What he is now building upon is a globally disruptive idea in accommodation and hotel industry.

Ritesh Agarwal who is merely 23 years old, has certain awards and credentials to his name, some of which are:

–  Forbes “30 under 30” in the consumer tech sector
–  Top 50 entrepreneurs in 2013 by TATA First Dot powered by NEN awards
–  TiE-Lumis Entrepreneurial Excellence award in 2014
–  Business World young entrepreneur award

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Live Your Passion

From My Book - ( Think Like A Winner )
Page 9 - Author - Sudhir Pai        

After a successful training session, one day, I was travelling by local train in Mumbai from my office to home. The gentleman sitting in the adjoining seat went on talking for almost half an hour on photography with his friend. He really seemed to have a depth and wide knowledge on the subject. After he finished, I could not help asking him,” Are you a photographer?” He said “No, I am a Mechanical Engineer by training but I want to take up photography as a career. That is where my real interest lies. I have tried several times to get into that field without success. What is the point in earning money working for something you don’t like and then spending the same money in case any health problem arises? It’s not easy to switch professions”. It is a pity that training and education are given more importance than natural talent.

In real life, we have untrained actors like Amitabh Bachchan, untrained lateral thinkers like Dhirubhai Ambani, untrained geniuses like mathematician Ramanujan and even some nobel prize winners who frankly admitted that their success was because of lack of formal training on the subjects which enabled them to do out of the box thinking. Subhash Ghai trained as an actor but became a director, Ravi Shastri trained as a bowler but became a batsman, Salim Khan trained as an actor but became a writer ( In the book the making of Sholay, he admits that he had the gift of conception but not the gift of projection). If these people could be successful, why should other people who find their vocations late in life, not be a given an opportunity. Should their whole lives be ruined because of one wrong decision? 

A few days back I heard a religious discourse where the speaker said that somebody asked Swami Vivekanand, ” How wise are you?” He said that I am more a fool and less a wise man because I am wise in only one thing and a fool in all the rest. Imagine a man of the stature of Swami Vivekanand saying a thing like that. Though Swamiji said that and the literal meaning of the word education is to draw out what is already in, it does not happen in real life as a result of which there is lifelong misery like the one mentioned above. Do not people who made a wrong decision once deserve a new chance? Should not more proactive attempts be made to know early in life where one is wise and where one is a fool to enable you to prosper emotionally and financially.

As Aamir Khan in his film 3 Idiots has rightly said >>> Don’t chase success …. Excel in your profession …. And success will start chasing you !!!

Wise words indeed !!

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