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 )
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 ) :
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
?
By substituting :
02 May 2018
