Tuesday 1 May 2018

Samudra Manthan [ Ocean Churning ] V 2.0

10,000 B C ( Ancient Legend )

I am reminded of an ancient Indian legend of “ Samudra Manthan “ [ Ocean Churning ]

It seems Devas ( Good people ) and Asuras ( Bad people ) got together to churn the ocean , both desirous to get their hands on AMRUT ( Nectar of Immortality ) , hidden within the ocean

They picked the mountain MERU as the churning tool and the huge snake WASUKI ,as the rope with which to rotate the tool , with one end of WASUKI held by the DEVAS and the other by the ASURAS

After a lot of churning , many things surfaced , some good and some bad

Then came out VISH ( Poison ) !

No one wanted that ! It would , instantly kill who-so-ever came anywhere near it

So , both the parties jointly petitioned Lord Shiva to drink it , in order to save them from complete annihilation by the poison

Being a generous and mankind loving God , Shiva drank the poison and held it firmly in his throat and became known as NEEL-KANTH ( God with green-coloured throat )

I have forgotten if the legend makes any mention of finding that AMRUT and who benefitted by drinking it

But I do find some striking similarities between this legend and our Information / Data driven society of today !

Just substitute as follows :

* Ocean ( SAMUDRA ) = Database of past-present-future “ THOUGHTS “ of entire

mankind

* Churn ( MANTHAN ) = Big Data Predictive

Analysis

* Mountain ( MERU ) = Internet Connected Devices ( IoT )

* Rope ( WASUKI ) = Artificial Intelligence ( AI )

* Good People ( DEVAs ) = Scientists finding solutions to human misery

* Bad People ( ASURAs ) = Greedy / Selfish / Power-hungry politicians

* Poison ( VISH ) = Malware / Spiders / Hackers / Evil software / Terrorists

* God ( NEEL-KANTH ) = Central Server storing all “ Thoughts “ of mankind

02 May 2018 ( Today’s Legend )

“ Fintech players rely on AI to build credit scores for disbursal of loans “

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/money-and-banking/fintech-players-rely-on-ai-to-build-credit-scores-for-disbursal-of-loans/article23739768.ece

Now, customers with no prior credit score can easily get loans

The burgeoning online lending segment in India is also giving rise to a new kind of challenge on sourcing credit score data.

To solve this problem, several fintech companies are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to create alternate lending data score for more than 80 per cent of the Indian population who have no credit scores.

From the place where people live to the restaurants they visit to their digital footprints on social media, ML captures it all.

2020 A D ( Tomorrow’s Legend )

Following news snippet appeared in Times of India ( 29 April ) :

CHINA’s “ SOCIAL CREDIT “ PLAN IS SCARIER THAN AADHAR

https://www.pressreader.com/india/the-times-of-india-new-delhi-edition/20180429/282260961077625

Misbehaviour on-board one of China’s high speed trains ( 20,000 km built in past 10 years ), can hurt a citizen’s credit score

The warning should not be taken lightly because, come 2020, a state backed “ Social Credit Scheme “ will become mandatory

A loan default by a friend or a snide comment on social media could affect creditworthiness

Government will profile citizens based on their Commercial , Social , Trust and Judicial Credibility

Even refusing state incentives, say, by not having two kids, could be held against a citizen

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C

Chinese Surveillance is getting into Workers' Heads

https://futurism.com/china-emotional-surveillance/

Here’s how it works. Lightweight sensors embedded in workers’ hats or helmets wirelessly transmit the wearer’s brainwave data to a computer — it probably works a bit like an electroencephalogram (EEG), as MIT Tech Review notes.

Then, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms scan the data, looking for outliers that could indicate anxiety or rage.

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Question :

How can we use our ANCIENT LEGEND to save the Mankind from the Poison and find that elusive AMRUT ?

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