– Reflections on Artificial Intelligence – A Guide for Thinking Humans This is the sixth and final reflection in a series inspired by Melanie Mitchell’s Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans. For an introduction to the series, head over to the first post here. When I first began using these systems, it was out…
– Reflections on Artificial Intelligence – A Guide for Thinking Humans This is the fifth reflection in a series inspired by Melanie Mitchell’s book Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans. For an introduction to the series, head over to the first post here. When I was reading Mitchell’s section on machine comprehension, particularly her…
– Reflections on Artificial Intelligence – A Guide for Thinking Humans This is the fourth reflection in a series inspired by Melanie Mitchell’s Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans. For an introduction to the series, head over to the first post here. When I was reading the chapters on how AI systems were trained,…
– Reflections on Artificial Intelligence – A Guide for Thinking Humans This is the third reflection in a series inspired by Melanie Mitchell’s Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans. For an introduction to the series, head over to the first post here. Mitchell’s book is rich with the history of AI. It traces…
– Reflections on Artificial Intelligence – A Guide for Thinking Humans This is the second reflection inspired by Melanie Mitchell’s Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans. While reading her chapters on natural language processing, I found myself returning to a moment with my daughter. My daughter is six. And she talks. With her…
– Reflections on Artificial Intelligence – A Guide for Thinking Humans Recently I read Melanie Mitchell’s brilliant book Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans. It is a comprehensive introduction to the world of AI for anyone who wants to know when, how and how far we have come. The book was published a…
By the time I finished reading Parmenides, Melissus, and Zeno, I no longer felt as though I were reading Western philosophy. It felt like something else—something older, quieter, more solemn. Like stepping into a forgotten ashram. A lineage severed. A thread that once shimmered with truth, now frayed at the edge of memory. These…
This is a continuation of an earlier reflection—on the early Greeks not as textbook thinkers, but as seekers. In the first part, I wrote about Thales, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, and Xenophanes. Men who stood beside rivers and caves and tried to listen to what the world was saying. This next set of figures came later,…
This year, I began a slow, deliberate journey into Western philosophy. It had long been on my list of things to do. I had a general familiarity with the Western thought, but a systematic study is something that I wanted to do. After all, I call myself a philosopher. I decided to begin with…
After reading Yuganta: The end of an epoch, there were two things that kept bothering me. The first one was Karve’s view of Bhishma, specifically around the incident during the Rajasuya Yagna by Yudhishthir. Bhishma asked for Krishna to be the first one to be respected and in both Shishupala and Karve’s view that…