Artificial Intelligence: Neither a fantasy of Techies nor money plant of Capitalist but rather an unconscious need of common (wo)man of the future generation

It is rightly said that AI is a word that is found more in the air around us than at the desk. It has become more as a part of the conversation rather than the part of desk research by common people.
AI’s origin was rooted in the view that machine can simulate reasoning with the help of Binary 0 and 1.Alan Turing gave the above view and is called as the father of AI. It was prematurely born in the 1950s and became a Frankenstein monster of the common man in last 10 years. It is mainly associated with loss of jobs by the common man and seen as a competitor for the job.
But why at all a common man needs AI?
To understand this we need to delve back in history and understand how an individual would see meaning in their life in the societal structure in the past.
When human beings became conscious of it’s existence, we felt that periodic positive forces of nature like Rain, Sunlight which are powerful than us and we are at their mercy to survive. We also encountered negative forces of Earthquake, Volcanism, and Storm. Since human’s psychology is designed in a way that we surrender to those more powerful than us, we started pleasing nature by making them gods (a superficial entity based upon whom our existence depends) and later the definition of god changed to a superficial entity that created us. And since it is difficult for humans to assume rain as god therefore in every mythology human-alike figure was created to represent the god of natural force and emotion.
From the Societal perspective, it became very convenient as every person with the help of mythology understood a narrow perspective of their existence on the planet and they were mentally satisfied with it. There were few classes or caste mobility so people learned about the work they will pursue in future from socialization with family and village.
Nowadays, after the advent of science age, all the understanding is criticized if justified solely on the basis of mythology or religious text. Rational explanations are encouraged. Science has shown us that reality is very complex and an individual will be only understanding a part of the whole.
People’s contribution towards the complete political, economic and social system is manifold in form of jobs in economics, volunteering in society and raising a voice in political activity. Jobs which people take in their careers are very specialized ones and they will incomplete knowledge about another specialized role that they are not into. So if you are a Metallurgical Engineer you will have very little knowledge about the dental problem you have and it’s consequences and which doctor would be best for you. And this will create instability and lack of decision-making in life of people, we solve this at present by accepting a story of Doctor X in general is better than Doctor Y so (s)he will be better for them too.
Machine Learning by companies like Amazon rating it’s products or Practo in India rating its doctors resolve our objective dilemma of selecting let’s say the best earphone or dentist but many times the problem is related to subjective dilemma and it can only be resolved by someone who has dedicated their life to understanding you and your belongings: And here comes the role of personalized AI for everyone. The AI will help people understand nihilism when someone explains a version of it to him and show all the viewpoints leading to the creation of no stereotype, or help in choosing the eyeglasses best for him(Presently say the Lenskart AI only shows suggestions based upon your browsing history rather than having a complete understanding of you). Since it understands better the person as well about eyeglasses and nihilism, no one would be a better guide than AI. And no, this is not just inspired from Terasem Movement.
At present despite living in the high time of economic stability, low warfare, high comforting technologies, the happiness of people are low. This is more so in people who have a better understanding of the complexities of nature’s creation i.e weather, mountains, Sun, planets and human’s creation i.e Economic system, Political System. Earlier people believed in God and accept what they have or the conditions they are treated with as an act of God. This makes the life of people mentally stable. In future with scientific temper pouring to the bottoms of society, people will become more atheists, think rationally and so AI will bring a happiness in the life of people similar to ancient times without a need to attach to a false story of God by Church or Enlightened people by Sadguru of Isha Foundation. The major reason of people’s unhappiness is that they can’t understand reality as it is very complex while in ancient times due to the myths and Religious literature it seemed to them that they have understood it and also all the system created for their governance. But actually they haven’t. It was just like Plato’s Allegory of Cave case.(Read “Note” at last of article)
So AI which at present looks like a business profiteering tool of Capitalists and religion of Intelligent Aliens will solve a problem which would have been the biggest emotional instability for humanity as a community.
Note: Steven Pinker in his book “Enlightenment Now” tried to address the problem of why people think life of people in past was better but I think he underrepresented the role of belief in myths in happiness of individual’s life. Although I do agree with his view of media presenting only ill effects of modernity.
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