Rangoli

Living with a Violinist Robot

There is an invigorating debate among my IIT friends about this robot playing the violin. The summary of the majority view is

1. AI and LLM will overtake humans. 

2. Man took 2 billion years to be here but AI will do it in say a decade. 

3. Man is just some carbon stuff. This is silicon stuff. No need to discard its excellence. 

4. Music can be coded and robotic music be as great as what we like among human musicians, if not better. 

My own view:

1. A robot has no soul. Music comes from the soul although it is processed and presented by the mind-body complex. 

2. A robot can not enjoy music. So even if he produces music, he will be a fake! 

3. We are underestimating the human faculties of love, bliss and aesthetic creativity. To think man can put it into code and make a Deep Learning Robot a better version of himself is highly underestimating man. In other words, it is underestimating Bhagavan, in whose image man has been created. 

If man can create a machine better than himself, he is actually destroying Bhagavan. Will that day come? 

शारदे करुणानिधे

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEu8hyT64tg

शारदे करुणानिधे Oh Devi Sharada, Treasure-house of Grace

सकलान् अव अम्ब सदा जनान्, Mother, protect all people always

चारणादि महित – You are praised by all panegyrists

वैभव पूरित अखिल दिक्तटे Your fame fills the world in all the directions

 

भर्म भूषण भूषिते – You are adorned with gold ornaments

वर रत्न मौलि विराजिते – You are resplendent with a bejewelled crown

शर्म दायिनि – Giver of prosperity and wellbeing!

कर्म मोचनि – Remover of past karmas!

निर्मलम् कुरु मानसम् – Please purify our minds!

 

हस्त सन्धृत पुस्तक अक्षपटि सुधाघट मुद्रिते - In your four hands, you beautifully hold Pustaka (vedas), Japamala, pot of Amrita, and gesture of grace

कः तव अस्ति हि वर्णने चतुरो नर, खेचरो अथवा – Who among men or gods is there who can indeed describe your glory?

 

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