Doctor’s: 3 Ways how AI and Machine Learning is going to Change your future!

Doctor’s: 3 Ways how AI and Machine Learning is going to Change your future!

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The second machine age! – Do we need a new Education system?

The second machine age! – Do we need a new Education system?

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Fake News!

These days one of the hottest topics is “fake news”. In the other hand, many technologists are trying to work on looking for the solutions using blockchain, deep learning and AI. However, if you are thinking this is a recent problem, it’s not. If you have a logical mind to listen to the truth, let’s look at when, how and why this “Fake News” issue started.

The moment, we talked about Fake News, we start blaming everyone and everything, we talk about Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, WhatsApp, Tweeter and blame them, curse the recent technology platforms etc. Do you really think so? ‘No’, Fake News, is neither their creation nor the recent technology can be blamed for this.

If you are religious or sentimental, we really do not hart your feeling.

Fake News is almost as old as the human history. We believed in fictions, fake news for hundreds of years and killed & scarified many humans based on these, burned churches, temples, mosques, synagogues, and places, divided the world in many parts, fought numerous wars. Here are some examples…

There is a nice quote from Yuval Noah Harari, “If you blame Facebook, Donald Trump or Vladimir Putin for ushering in the new and frightening era of post rhythms, remind yourself that centuries ago millions of Christians lock themselves inside the self-reinforcing enforcing mythological bubble, never daring to question the factual veracity of the Bible, why do millions of Muslims put their unquestioning faith on the Quran. For millennia, much of what passes for news and facts in human social networks stories about miracles, angels, demons, and witches with bold reporters giving live coverage straight from the deepest pits of the underworld. We have zero evidence that Eve was tempted by the Serpent, that the souls of all the infidels burn in the hell after they die. Or that the creator of the universe does not like it when a Brahmin marries a Dalit (untouchable). Yet the billions of people have believed in these stories for thousands of years.”

“As Yuval Noah Harari rightly said, “However, that I am not denying the effectiveness or potential benevolence of religion. Just the opposite. For better or worse, fiction is among the most effective tools in humanity’s tool kit. By bringing people together, religious creeds make large-scale human cooperation possible. They inspire people to build hospitals, schools, and bridges in addition to armies and prisons. Adam and Eve never existed, but Chartres Cathedral is still beautiful.”

From my school days, when there were no Facebook, WhatsApp, or Internet, 30th May, 1990, West Bengal, India: A team of three health officers were returning to Kolkata after inspecting an immunization program in Gosaba. Around 6:30 pm when they had reached Bantala near the Eastern metropolitan bypass, a group of 4-5 youths stopped their car near the CPI(M) party office. The attackers killed the driver and set the car on fire. The lady officers were then taken to a nearby paddy field and raped. Health Minister of West Bengal, defended the mob by contending that the victims might have been mistaken as child-abductors.

A lie told once remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth” – Paul Joseph Goebbels.

Do you remember what Adolf Hitler said, “But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.”

Now, when we talk about technology, they are just adding the multiplier effects by using their reach so the print media? People talk about using blockchain to stop the fake news but how? You can use blockchain to reach the source fairly quickly and accurately using the same cryptographic hash function that’s used in crypto currencies but that’s the only thing you can do is to find out the ‘source’. Does that mean there is no fake news that comes up from the white house or senate or truth cannot be reported from Somalia?

If we use AI to train our model using supervised learnings, how do we train the model, when we don’t even know ourselves if it’s the fake news or fiction? If you use unsupervised learning, The part of “propagandist technique” that Hitler used can also be used easily to make fake news a ‘real one’!

Any thoughts?

Abhijit Ghosh is the CEO of StanShare, in addition to an enthusiastic learner with deep understanding of both data, technology, and concurrent people management policies and practices. An exceptional achiever, well-rounded, multilingual, culturally aware professional with a strong background in building and leading multi-discipline, geographically dispersed teams to manage complex operations and automation. Specializes in highly cross functional collaborations with Operations, Finance, HR, Data Management in financial services industry. He has over 17 years of hands-on management experience in planning, creating, data products and solutions through design thinking. Extremely skilled strategist for robotics and cognitive automation solutions.

The second machine age! – Do we need a new Education system?

The current education system was developed over 2000 years back, when knowledge and data was scarce resources, only available in few books and with some experienced people. If you have seen the popular web series of “Game of Thrones”, you must have seen some of the books could only be accessed by the kings, riches, and wealthy. Kids had to go to the libraries and schools learn from the knowledge available in those books. Many of them, we did not even know are fictions or actual stories. The authoritarian teacher’s job was to impart the knowledges to their student so they can move from far away villages, to get some job at a factory in a small town and work until their retirement!

These days, the problem is not scarce resources or knowledge, it’s just a ‘click’ away, irrespective of if you are sitting in Congo or a small village Sweden or India. The problem is now reversed, we have so much data and knowledge, we do not even know which one to consume and which one not. Are we still not surprised, when we see our kids going to school carrying a big school bag but their cell phone has quick access to all the data? In the evening, when they try to mug up “what is crusade” and “who is the president of United States” or “learning programming in C++” or “learning Sanskrit on Chinese”.

Just take a deeper look now, why do our kids need to learn “what is crusade” and “who is the president of United States”, when it’s just a click away anyway 24*7? Most of the time, when they go to school, they already know much more than what they learn in school. When we are in the beginning of the second machine age using AI, neural network, deep learning in 2019, by the time, they come out of the school, either C++ is obsolete or the AI is writing the computer codes much better than humans, so the skills they learnt for 20+ years, are obsolete. ‘Google Translate’ is translating so flawlessly from few words or even gestures that we don’t need to teach our kids to learn German, Sanskrit, Chinese, or French in 2030!

So, what do we teach our kids? The basic skills that made us human! We are talking about what people says, 4Cs of 21st century.

Þ  Critical thinking

Þ  Creativity

Þ  Collaboration

Þ  Communication

Critical thinking is all about solving problems.

Creativity teaches students to think outside the box.

Collaboration shows students how to work together to achieve a common goal.

Communication lets students learn how to best convey their ideas.

You may find some variation on the wording for these skills, but they all encapsulate the same ideas. When you are not sure of the future skill and you just wanted to be agile, and future ready rather than learning something that we know are going to get obsolete! 

Abhijit Ghosh is the CEO of StanShare, in addition to an enthusiastic learner with deep understanding of both data, technology, and concurrent people management policies and practices. An exceptional achiever, well-rounded, multilingual, culturally aware professional with a strong background in building and leading multi-discipline, geographically dispersed teams to manage complex operations and automation. Specializes in highly cross functional collaborations with Operations, Finance, HR, Data Management in financial services industry. He has over 17 years of hands-on management experience in planning, creating, data products and solutions through design thinking. Extremely skilled strategist for robotics and cognitive automation solutions.