Kris Shankar“I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”: Or How Humans Can Outsmart AI before It Outsmarts Us“It took Einstein 6 years to incorporate Gravity into his Theory of Special Relativity. Gravity was the biggest gap in his theory of…May 20, 2023May 20, 2023
Kris ShankarThe Tally is Humans 1, AI 0 — At least for NowTwo days ago, I sat alongside 800 other folks at Wisdom 2.0 in San Francisco, watching Sam Altman, the creator of ChatGPT, and his…May 2, 20231May 2, 20231
Kris ShankarThree Similarities between AI and Ourselves: Lessons from Sydney and ChatGPT and why AI won’t…With the recent buzz about AI and LLMs (Large Language Models), everyone is speculating about how intelligent or human AI is. In February…Mar 27, 20231Mar 27, 20231
Kris ShankarSeven Things to Do and One Thing not to Do in a Time of Layoffs: A Mindfulness PerspectiveA workmate from many years back dropped by for a chat a couple of days ago. He’d just gotten laid off from Microsoft after nearly two…Feb 21, 20234Feb 21, 20234
Kris ShankarOn Mind and Mindfulness: Conversations with ChatGPT, an Artificial IntelligenceWhat better way to close out 2022 than to have a conversation with ChatGPT, the hot new AI chatbot from OpenAI that everyone is talking…Dec 27, 2022Dec 27, 2022
Kris ShankarTakeaways from my Google-sponsored ticket to the “Wisdom 2.0: Mindfulness in a World on Fire” EventAs a Noogler, one of the cool things I’ve stumbled across at Google is its internal gPause program which offers secular mindfulness…Nov 14, 20221Nov 14, 20221
Kris ShankarSeeing the Nature of the Mind: Lessons from a Tibetan Buddhist Monk’s Talk at GoogleIn late September, about 300 other Googlers and I attended a lunchtime talk at work titled “Seeing the Nature of Your Mind” by Kalu…Oct 23, 20221Oct 23, 20221
Kris ShankarLearning to Meditate from Movies and Milarepa the MurdererSome months back, I was trying to convey my experience at a 10-day silent meditation retreat to a former workmate and friend…Aug 21, 2022Aug 21, 2022
Kris ShankarEinstein, Spooky Action at a Distance, and why the Universe might be a Simulation (or Console Game!)While the esoteric branch of physics known as String Theory concerns itself with unprovable propositions like the larger 26-dimensional…Aug 7, 2022Aug 7, 2022
Kris ShankarLucid Dreaming: The Key to Awakening from the MatrixMy recent post What’s Common to String Theory, Cognitive Neuroscience and Buddhism? described how we live in an illusory universe where all…Jul 26, 20223Jul 26, 20223
