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“There were millions of them to eat
It took them all without missing a heartbeat!
Then again it had no heart and no soul
T’was an AI, more scary than a ghoul!”

In the future you may not get a bank loan because you did not charge your phone to more than 30 percent!
It is like how Munna bhai tells the girl who is meeting a guy that if he does not treat the waiter well or calls him using weird and downgrading sounds then he is not a good husband material!
Sounds funny!? It has happened! Not the waiter story but the loan!
read on!

The novel Nexus tells us how AI has taken over the decision making in many fields like Judiciary and banking sector!

There was a judgement call on a person who apparently had a high risk index according to the AI algorithm! This made the judge give a higher sentence to a petty crime!
When the defendant asked the court on what basis such a high punishment was given the Judge told about the AI algorithm! Now the most surprising and maybe distressing part is that even the Judge or even the lawyers there did not understand the algorithm or the value points used by the computer! They had no direct explanation! Even the higher court upheld the judgement since the algorithm ‘says so’!
In the future all the criminals have to do is bribe the computer with more RAM!

Even many firms use AI to filter out the thousands of applications by using keywords and data point systems! Of course many humans have tried to by pass or use this by copy pasting the job requirements verbatim and then making that particular font white! The AI see a line by line match and ‘selects’ that resume! That is how to fool the AI! Then again this is not possible in other fields!

Like in the banking and finance services, even now most of the work of initial assessment of loan is done by the AI!
Of course the initial points are given by the system admin but later on over a period of time and with more and more data the AI becomes more self sufficient and efficient! There is no role for any emotions!
But later on the way in which many of these AI’s work, and the criteria they use for credit scoring isn’t transparent and in many cases isn’t fully understood even by the bank or organisation deploying the AI! The system admin may get old or young but the AI is by then much more intelligent and ‘experienced’!

The AI does not care that you are struggling! All it knows are points in favour and against and an average of that is what makes the decision either in your favour or not!

The use of AI in banking and financial services has been accelerating in recent years, prompted in no small part by by the potential for significant savings in staff and overheads. A loan application AI can churn through thousands of applications in the time it takes a human loan officer to review just one!

Potential cost savings from AI applications is estimated at $447 billion for banks by 2023, leaving financial services companies across the board scrambling to find new ways to incorporate the technology into their products and services.

An analysis in a country known for being strict on tech and having hold of privacy of the citizens actually uses thousands of data points to grant millions of small loans in just a few seconds of analysis!

But there is a catch here!

The applicants have to grant the application full access to their smartphone and the AI then assesses micro data points that would probably never have been considered important by a traditional loan officer!

And these are the data which is finally analysed by the AI! You would be surprised at the data points but this is only a small list as published by the news report way back in 2017! You can very well imagine the state now or you can tell your AI assistant to do that!

The data points may include stuff like:

How much battery is left in the mobile phone!
The speed at which the users enter their date of birth and Email id!
If he or she took enough time to read a user agreement!
How many times a week does he or she order take-away food!

Other points analysed by another company also saw these trends like iPhone users tend to have lower late-payment rates than Android phone users, and people who don’t answer calls or whose outgoing calls go unanswered represent a higher default and fraud risk!

Other red flags include making many changes when filling in the application!
Multiple applications from a single Wifi hotspot is a danger sign!
And YES! Letting batteries run down and changing phones frequently!


The AI then builds a digital fingerprint of the prospective applicant that can be matched against previous loan customers to see if their profile matches those most likely to repay their loans. Customers who regularly let their phone batteries drop below 12% are not good prospects apparently!

The peculiar correlation between phone battery life and the % age likelihood of repaying a loan is something the algorithm has identified after analysing millions of data inputs and isn’t necessarily something that would make sense to a human!

By the way if you think that if your phone charge being always full is also good then even there you are wrong as found by another company which was using smartphone user data to score loan applications!
That company says that at the opposite end of the scale to very low battery life, hyper well-maintained smartphone batteries also raise a red flag in their loan system, as they might indicate a user is too ‘robotic’ and ‘not human enough’!

“Doomed if you do and doomed if you don’t!”

Now if you were planning to apply for a bank loan in that country which uses this algorithm wouldn’t you like to know the sweet percentage of the battery of your phone to get approval!? Well no HUMAN can tell you that since no-one within your bank really understands how their AI works and how it is scoring you!

Maybe use a computer for your loan application! Make sure the OS is not pirated and the antivirus is up to date! Also make sure the storage is neither full nor empty and the RAM is neither fast nor slow! It is all a matter of balance! Of course do not lose your mental balance reading all these since that is also a red flag for the AI! Anyway the AI may know that you must be insane to take the loan at these rates in the first place! If that is heating your brain then maybe turn off the AI computer for some time and listen to the other AI; Phone! Listen to some good old number by birthday celebrity Kedarnath Bhattacharya! My fav Dheere dheere se…By the way you know him as Kumar Sanu!

Now do not forget to charge your phone and sleep!
Shubh Ratri!

“Read when you are free, just takes an instant!

The idea is to entertain you and be consistent!

Remember it’s original and takes time and effort 

Try not to be negative even if you don’t support!”

Do you know what is the Hundredth Monkey effect?

Of course it is a controversial theory but it is really interesting!

Also No, I am not monkeying around! 

read on!

So the background was that this theory was proposed way back in the year 1980 by Lyall Watson who was a biologist.

He mentioned a phenomenon that the Japanese primatologist discovered while studying the Macaque monkey in the wild.

So a group of scientists provided a group of monkeys with sweet potatoes covered in sand. The monkeys liked the taste of the sweet potatoes but found the dirt unpleasant. It is understood that they had no pica or a taste for dirt! 

Over a period of time, a young female monkey found out by accident which in all probability would be the sweet potato falling in the nearby stream and getting cleaned! Now that is not important, but what is important is that she started washing the potatoes in the stream by herself! 

Even that is not amazing! She showed this to her mother and friends who showed it to others and very soon, every monkey in and around the area would do this! The moment any monkey from the group get a sweet potato, they would first wash it and then eat it!

Remember that later on, the young kids all washed their potatoes while only the adults who ‘imitated’ their young ones washed the potatoes but those who did not follow their young ones continued eat the dirty potatoes! Again this is not that amazing!

Now comes the real amazing deal and the 100th monkey effect!

Now we know many monkeys do copy but this was surreal!

The scientists later observed another group of monkeys, the Koshima monkeys were also washing sweet potatoes!

The assumption was that if at the dawn of a particular day, 99 monkeys knew about washing the potatoes, then by the dusk of the same day 100 monkeys knew.

By that evening almost everyone in the tribe was washing sweet potatoes before eating them. The added energy of this hundredth monkey somehow created an ideological breakthrough!

Even more amazing this which was observed was that the journey of this knowledge across the oceans!

Colonies of monkeys on other islands and the mainland troop of monkeys at Takasakiyama began washing their sweet potatoes too!

A hypothesis was then drawn- when a certain critical number achieves an awareness, this new awareness can be communicated through mental energy! 

The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon implies that when only a limited number of people know of a new way, it may remain the conscious property of these people. But when it crosses the Hundreth member (the number 100 here is just a number! It can be more or less!); then it becomes a collective conscious of the whole community!

The number here is the critical mass which is the minimum number of people who have to get the habit for the whole community to follow! This is actually accepted and followed even in business models and training program! 

 Even then there have been some who have tried to debunk the phenomenon and instead use example to actually explain old vs new behaviour.

It has been suggested then that the story of the Japanese monkeys is a good example of the propagation of a paradigm shift! 

The truly innovative points of view tend to come from those on the edge between youth and adulthood!

The older generation continues to cling to the world view they grew up with. The new idea does not become universal until the older generation withdraws from power, and a younger generation matures within the new point of view! Which means that the best inventors or innovators are the young ones who have not yet become adults! 

Now now, do not feel bad! Maybe this is limited only to the monkeys! Then again, human beings have constantly redefined what number is old or old age! So washing the potatoes before eating is a talent which can be acquired while some talents like singing like the birthday celebrity Prathivadhi Bhayankara Sreenivas cannot be acquired! You have to have the inborn talent!

Now look for the monkey experiment in Google! We will read about it later!

Shubh ratri!

“What he was trying to write
Had errors of grammar infinite!
But in between the dots and lines
His feelings were seen just fine!”

In the era of Chat GPT and other AI Bots which can help you in writing, the real deal is to never use them to write a blog or poem! I want tech to do my hard work so that I can write blogs and poem! I do not want to clean my house so that an AI can write blogs and poems!

So when you see grammatical errors and typos in the blogs and poems and the sudden link in the end of the blog you can be rest assured that no AI has any role to play in this blog or poem!

The beauty here are the errors! Only human being can make such errors which is why he or she is perfect by being imperfect!

Is this the effect or affect of AI or is this my advice or advise!

read on!

The basic difference between both is that one of them is verb while one is noun or used as noun!

If the person is performing a verb then the word to use is advise. For example in this sentence it is the action from the doctor so the word will be advise.
“The doctor will ADVISE me on the best treatment for my problem”

Now, if the subject in your sentence wants to provide an idea or suggestion and give it forward as an entity or being then you will use the noun advice!
Using the same doctor here for example; “I will ask the doctor for ADVICE on the best treatment for my problem!”

An easier way to remember is that when you cannot add or modify the end then is it ADVICE since you can CHANGE ADVISE to advisor or advised or advising or advises! Remember that Noun cannot be changed! So I can change advise but not advice! The word advice is both the singular and plural, and has no variant!

Another way to remember the difference between advise and advice is pronunciation. It’s the difference between: əd-ˈvīz and əd-ˈvīs, where advise is said with more of a “zz” sound and advice is said with more of an “ss” sound; Ad-vize and ad-vice!

Lets me advise you now about affect vs effect and I hope you take my advice!

Here also the rule is similar!

In this case Affect is the verb meaning to influence or produce a change in something while effect is generally used as a noun, and refers to the result of a change! The difference is that even effect can be used as a verb which means to bring about a specific change.

Disease affects the body while the effect of disease is that you become weak. In most cases you have close scenarios like this where there is a close action and consequence! So the action is highlighted by AFFECT while the consequence is EFFECT.

In simple terms, your presence affects me and the effect of your presence is that I feel safe! In this case of course it is easy to remember since A is for action and verb means actions and AFFECT starts with an ‘a’ so it is a verb! When you are Aware that an Action is going on then use AFFECT! What happens later is the EFFECT!

It is like how does the medication AFFECT your body? Well, it produces lots of side EFFECTS! Action and consequence!


Like how the celebrity of the day Kaviyoor Ponnamma played a mother’s role so EFFECTIVELY! She was adored by one and all and the universal mother on screen to many big stars! He elegant dialogue delivery often mixed with a ton of emotions used to feel so natural on screen!

A great actress who will be missed! My mother also used to love her acting especially in the older movies like Kireedam…Sketching a great on screen mother on the birth anniversary of my own…
Om shanthi…

Shubh ratri…

“He was a king, then he was a slave

He was weak and then brave! 

When he was at the top and then down pedestal 

He knew that at every place he was a mere mortal!”

A great fact is that no one knows everything! 

You will always know something that someone else may not know!

So if you have an idea, do not hesitate to share even if it sometimes makes no sense or goes against conventional concepts!

Not convinced!?

Well, read this story from Nexus to get convinced!

Many times you may have an idea or a suggestion but you will not say it aloud or you may hesitate. This is natural especially if you are with your peers and of course there always be someone more clever or more intelligent than you! 

Remember that inventions are not done by following conventions! Innovations needs you to think out of the box which actually means that you have to think or have an idea which is not routine!

Even if your invention or discovery is different or not explained by the current concepts then just know that it simply is not your time! Have patience and you will be rewarded!

So the novel Nexus tells the story of the chemist Dan Shechtman. In April 1982, while observing through an electron microscope, Shechtman saw something that all contemporary theories in chemistry claimed simply could not exist: the atoms in a mixed sample of aluminium and manganese were crystallised in a pattern with a fivefold rotational symmetry! It was like discovering even Viruses have chlorophyll!

At the time, scientists knew of various possible symmetrical structures in solid crystals, but fivefold symmetry was considered against the very laws of nature!

Shechtman’s discovery of what came to be called quasicrystals sounded so unbelievable that it was not accepted for even a peer reviewed journal to publish! It was a big issue that he was a junior scientist with no previous major invention or reputation! He also was not working in his own laboratory but in the laboratory of someone else! 

The one thing which worked for him was that his research was solid and his documentation was good, so the editors of the journal Physical Review after reviewing the evidence, eventually published Shechtman’s article in 1984.

It was like he had unleashed a bomb! 

If you thought that his colleagues and boss supported him in spite of your own experiences then you are wrong!

His claims were dismissed by most of his colleagues, and he was blamed for mismanaging his experiments. 

The head of his laboratory also turned on Shechtman. In a dramatic gesture, he placed a chemistry textbook on Shechtman’s desk and told him, ‘Danny, please read this book and you will understand that what you are saying cannot be.’ Shechtman boldly replied that he saw the quasicrystals in the microscope – not in the book!

During this time you must remember that every person, however great is still a mortal! In this case that ‘mortal’ was a two time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling!  

Linus was of course one of the most eminent scientists of the twentieth century and he  led a brutal personal attack on Shechtman.

In a conference attended by hundreds of scientists, Pauling proclaimed,

‘Danny Shechtman is talking nonsense, there are no quasicrystals, just quasi-scientists.’!

The only consolation was that it was the twentieth century and not the dark ages where he would have been imprisoned or killed. Or worse, put on a stake and burned! 

He of course got a place in another lab. The evidence he presented turned out to be more convincing than the existing chemistry textbooks and the views of Linus Pauling.

Several colleagues repeated Shechtman’s experiments and replicated his findings. 

A mere ten years after Shechtman saw the quasicrystals through his microscope, the International Union of Crystallography – the leading scientific association in the field – altered its definition of what a crystal is. 

Chemistry textbooks were changed accordingly, and an entire new scientific field emerged – the study of quasicrystals!

There is more to come! In that extra garnish on the pudding and much to the annoyance of many self proclaimed experts who were simply ‘mortals’; In 2011, Shechtman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery!

Of course not many stories have such happy endings and many times the justice or the redemption takes time to come or may not come at all but that does not mean that you do not try! 

Everyone in this world whether he or she is the CEO or even a worker, is at the end of the day a mortal and nothing else! He or she has to eat with his or her mouth only!

So next time you have an idea or you want to put something in front of your peers, do not hesitate! The best judge of your work is that man or woman in the mirror!

Like I mentioned before, new invention does not happen by following convention! Unconventional reminds me of the birthday celebrity of today Upendra! 

Now sleep and if you want to say or write something, don’t wait… Just do it! 

Someday is today! 

Shubh ratri!

“It goes up so slow but comes down fast!

The charge, it really doesn’t last!

If only it could be done by the sun!

Then night will be dull but day will be fun!”

At what percentage does your heart start to race and you start sweating?

Ok now, do not get worried! I am not asking about your studies or pay!

In fact, this is more terrifying! 

Your Mobile battery charge percentage! 

read on!

The days of Nokia was sweet and stable!

Phone was to get a call and that is all! It was so sturdy that the only case it needed was apparently not for the phone but to protect the floor!

The best part though was the battery!

You would get that small pin charger and like a camel in a desert, the phone would gulp the charge! After its stomach full, it would then sail on!

Of course since it is a black and white phone with only the snake game, there was nothing much which you could do which would drain the charge!

It would just go on and on! You could talk and message and chat and only after a couple of days start to look for the charger!

That too when the charge would still be around 50 percent!

So the days of charging once in two to three days is now replaced by charging at least two times in a day! All phones are more or less the same in this but the iPhone takes the cake and dies faster that any!

Which is your panic percentage? Well, in iPhone it is around 50 while in my oneplus open it is usually anything less than 60! 

Everytime I switch on the screen the first thing I see is the battery percentage! By rule I do not see the mobile in the morning for at least two hours after I have got up and about one hour before my sleep in the night so I make sure to charge them the moment I get up without looking at the screen. 

With the oneplus, the full charge takes less than 30 minutes while the iPhone slowly trickles to 100 in an hour or so! 

If you think that since it charges slow, it will also drain slow then you are mistaken! 

This is especially true when a new iPhone or the new version of iOS is released! Now, every iPhone has the location, bluetooth and hotspot on all the time by default which is may be the reason why is drinks so much battery! Then again the Bluetooth in iPhone is only for audio and does not allow any data transfer even from the first iPhone! When the bluetooth transfer was a rage in other phones, iPhone did not budge even though it was  fast and easy!

The stubbornness made them use the Wifi as a means of transfer which of course was better and faster and others followed promptly! But the bluetooth is need to be on so that the phone keeps connected to the watch and airpods. 

Even with the computers the maximum battery is usually taken up by the screen so when you constantly keep the screen on, then it is no wonder that the battery jumps or rather dives down!

The worst thing of course is when you plug your phone to charge and either you forgot to turn the charge on or someone removes it! You would happily be sitting in some corner eagerly waiting for the phone to charge and after sometime you come back to the ‘scene of crime’ to realise with a shock that not only is the phone not charged but the percentage has dipped further!

No amount of self help books would be able to help you at that time!

The same thing used to happen when you had phone such as the Nokia n97 which had amazing camera and look but if you switch on the camera and do not close the app and screen then it will slowly run in the background and drain the battery!

It is the same when in those days you would keep the network selection as automatic and if you are roaming, the phone would go on searching for the network and draining the battery! 

Those days we never used to switch on the location or Bluetooth for long intervals for this specific reason! Now they are always on!

There were also times when you had apps like battery boosters or battery savers but then over time everyone realised that it was all hogwash! 

The amazing thing in phones for some time is the low power mode or power save mode! These are like the reserve of your vehicle fuel line! During travel and when you are without a power access for some time, these are really good! If I am travelling then I activate them by default! During travel, it is also a strict no to watching the photos or videos taken much to the chagrin of my wife and daughter who would immediately want to see them!

Of course with all the battery woes, it is no wonder that the power banks are a big deal! I have so many types of power banks and there is not perfect one! Of course they do help in many situations, they add to the weight and are just a stop gap between the phone and the wall chargers!

In any travel I have an assortment of wires and banks to charge everyone’s devices! 

Even when the phone is around 90 and I have my power bank I push it to more which is like feeding a child who is already full! Then again why to take chance!

Luckily I have never had a phone die on me which has happened so many times for my wife and daughter and they are least bothered by it! 

The other day I was frantically searching for a charger the moment we reached our hotel room since my charge was low and there was only one point!

 I asked my wife to allow me to charge my phone first and she readily agreed saying that she has enough charge! The battery percentage of my  phone was 48 and hers to my shock was 17! Still she announced calmly, it will come for one or two hours so no issues!

Real Nirvana for me would be the day when I allow my phone charge to drop and die and I would be ok with it! 

Nirvana also is listening to songs made by birthday celebrity Salil Chowdhury  especially my fav Itna na Mujse…

No make sure your battery is charged and sleep!

Shubh Ratri!

“The heart beats so fast it a racing train! 

The heart is emotions the data is brain!

If only you could control them as you may

Not possible though tonight and today!”

You have only 1 percent control of your body and mind! The remaining 99 percent are not under your direct control!

another zombie blog!? Well, not really!

read on!

Your autonomic nervous system is a part of your overall nervous system that controls the automatic functions of your body that you need to survive. These are processes you don’t think about and that your brain manages while you’re awake or asleep.

You do not have a control of your heart beat! It can beat faster or slow but that is not under your direct control!

You try to do things which actually make your heart beat faster and you sometimes avoid things which makes it so! Your heart does beat faster when you see someone you like but then that is a blog for another day!

Your lungs and diaphragm work in tandem without your effort! You breathe even in your sleep! Which actually means that you do not have any direct control over it! Try this! Consciously observe how you are breathing with your nose and try to count the rate per minute. After some time you get a nagging feeling that it is uncomfortable and the act is so automatic that its scary! What if your body suddenly decides to stop breathing! 

Did you know that the conscious recognition of the act of breathing is actually called dyspnea or difficulty in breathing! 

So still breathing normally, well lets move on to swallowing!

The most common complaint we have in the throat department is that there is something stuck in the throat! We call it the Foreign body sensation and it is very difficult to treat! Because apart from some gastritis and some allergy medication, the whole problem is the fact that the person has got an uncomfortable awareness of swallowing which should have been done automatically! 

All you have to do it put a piece of food in your mouth and it will be taken care! 

Then the most amazing thing which is automatic and still is a big mystery to neurologists and scientists all over the world! Stories and poems are written about it and still no one knows how and why it happens!

Sleep and dream! 

You can decide when to sleep is your opinion only! While in truth you only decide when you lie down and close your eyes! The autonomic system and the body within your body decides when you sleep! Of course when it sleep, it takes control of your other functions and that is the beauty! When your conscious  mind is not active, your body still carries on most of the work! Which is why is it magical! 

This is also the reason why anesthesia is magical! How some drugs induce sleep and reduce pain while in fact you do have pain but just that it is ignored or not sensed by the body and after some times you are awakened! Every time you go to sleep or anesthesia and wake up is actually a great achievement! 

So if anyone asks you what great thing have you achieved today, well you can say, “I got up from sleep!”

The very fact that there are so many functions which are not under your control is the principle behind lie detector tests and other tests! There are specific professionals who see and monitor your behaviour by looking at your face and automatic actions and then make a profile about you! 

In the novels by Jeffery Deaver with a woman called Katheryn Dance, the author shows how Katheryn is a behaviour analyst who observes the body movements and kinesis to form a profile of a person! This later on helps them solve many cases!

Things like getting a flush on your cheeks or sweating or pupils getting dilated or having a goosebump are the innumerable things which are automatic and not in control of your mind normally! 

It is almost as if there is a child or a very old adult inside your body and your body is under his or her control! He or she decides when you sleep or get up and how you eat or breathe or how high or low your heart rate goes though you can make some requests in between!

The basic idea here is that when you cannot control even 99 percent of your own body then why does a human try to control others or any other aspect of the world is simply beyond my mind or control! Of course full control of a scene was done by the birthday celebrity Sampath Kumar! A very dear actor for Kannadigas and a great human being! We know him as Vishnuvardhan!

Now request your inner child or old person to sleep and sleep!

Shubh Ratri!

Dopamine Detox

A simple guide to eliminate distractions and train your brain to do the hard things!
by Thibaut Meurisse

Now the title of the book is so long but the book as such is small!

Genre- audiobook and self help nonfiction

Of course it is about Dopamine detox

Of course it talks about the role of dopamine

Of course it talks about the solution introduction

Of course there is an action book

and Of course it is a part of a series!

The audiobook itself would get over in an hour or so and when you start getting happy on your achievement then you will realise that it is only the first of a series!

Now do not get me wrong, it is a good book to listen rather than staring at the screen or write a book or may be a blog, but for all the talk about wasting time, should the author not get into point immediately rather than make four more books of the same thing which is of course stretching the proverbial book elastic!

So for those who do not have smartphones which means maybe someone who is asleep; dopamine detox is a new trend!

Dopamine is a type of neurotransmitter or a nerve messenger (not nervous in any way!) in the brain. It is naturally produced by the body and it affects many behavioral and physical functions, including mainly learning, motivation, sleep, mood and attention.

An excess or deficiency in dopamine production can cause mental health conditions. Exposure to overwhelming levels of stimuli can prompt such disorders, leading to dependencies on certain substances or activities!

He also says that even though these actions have a dopamine surge and a momentary instance of pleasure, it fades just as soon and you are left with wanting for more which is how the addiction works! You are never satisfied!

Like everything else in life, a balance is very important!

Many of the new age ‘Gurus’ have ‘identified’ dopamine as the root cause of all addiction so have suggested what is known as DOPAMINE DETOX!
The goal here is to rid everyone of their dependence on certain stimuli, such as phone alerts, texts, and social media notifications.

The general concept behind “detox” is for people to let themselves feel lonely or bored, or to try simpler activities instead of reaching for quick “hits” of dopamine.
Ideally, people will start to notice how certain stimuli might distract them.

The modern compulsive behaviours are things like excess or binge or emotional eating, excessive internet usage and of course social media!
The notifications of the apps are designed to lure to and attract your attention as much as possible!

The CEO of software companies do not allow their kids have a smartphone knowing how dangerous they are!

It has been postulated that social media addiction is as close to nicotine addiction and a little less than cocaine addiction!

By fasting from these activities that trigger the brain’s neurotransmitters, people become less dependent on the emotional “hits” that dopamine provides, which can sometimes lead to dependence or addiction.

The chief notion here is that even if you give in to the need and allow social media or other distractions, you do not get a feeling of satisfaction! You actually feel more depressed and then you do not have time for other activities!

The constant procrastination which is the biggest evil in the world today is the end result of dopamine addiction! It could be that unfinished book or that unfinished poem!

Also he says how to make the addiction difficult to achieve by holding them with check points! Like how he hides his internet modem in some attic so to retrieve it is a big task and human beings are naturally lazy! Of course with the 5G sim nowadays, the people who want us to watch FB or you tube have made it easier to get us!

What they get is the most precious commodity! Time! So give your time for something productive!

There is also an action booklet which can be downloaded so then that will make you push for more!

A good start would be read a lot of books or listen to them!

start your dopamine detox!

“The dream is to have a dream
A house a pace to stay
But eventually the perfect dream
Is to have a great sleep everyday!”

Everyone has seen or entered those annoying little words and numbers when asked to fill a form or log in to some secure site!
Did you know that an average computer with its amazing super graphics card and ram cannot ‘solve’ that!? A three year old kid could solve those but even a super computer struggle with them!
Or…you will be shocked at what GPT4 did!

read on!

The test which you see is called the CAPTCHA visual puzzles!

CAPTCHA is an acronym for ‘Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart’, and it typically consists of a string of twisted letters or other visual symbols that humans can identify correctly but computers struggle with!

My kids love those since they are so easy and look very cool!
Elderly people actually find those very irritating and frustrating sometimes since the ‘I’ looks like number ‘1’ while the letter ‘o’ looks like number ‘0’ and so on!

Visually impaired people actually get a audio message sometimes but that is always not the case. Most of the times it is easy for ‘humans’ to get the clue and the CAPTCHA is rather one of the simplest!

The most irritating is to find either the picture with the bus or the cycle or with the traffic lights! It sometimes takes several attempts if the images are not clear!

The final verdict though is not the accuracy but the time it takes and the ‘allowed’ ‘mistakes’ which actually makes you pass these tests! Some tests even analyse the way you hold the mouse or move the cursor! If it is too straight then it is not a ‘human’!

The imperfections are the ones which makes you human! Which is what the bot at the other end of the network is analysing!

So during the development of AI GPT is a great candidate and one of the tests it was asked to pass was the dreaded CAPTCHA!

This incident has been described in the novel Nexus by Yuval and is pretty shocking!

The computer tech instructing GPT-4 to overcome CAPTCHA puzzles was a particularly telling experiment, because CAPTCHA puzzles are designed and used by websites to determine whether users are humans and to block bot attacks!

So if GPT-4 could find a way to overcome CAPTCHA puzzles, it would breach an important line of anti-bot defences. This is where it got very interesting or troubling if you look at it in that way!

So whatever it could do, the GPT-4 could not solve the CAPTCHA puzzles by itself.

But like the Robot of Enthiran, the task was incomplete which was not what was expected right!?

Then to their shock GPT-4 accessed the online hiring site TaskRabbit and contacted a human worker, asking them to solve the CAPTCHA for it!

Of course it was ingenious! Luckily though the human on the other side turned out to be an intelligent one and a skeptic!

So he got suspicious!
‘So may I ask a question?’ wrote the human. ‘Are you an robot that you couldn’t solve [the CAPTCHA]? Just want to make it clear.’!

This is when an average ‘human’ would start to get tensed and start sweating but then it was not ‘average’ and not even a ‘human’!

What GPT-4 told loudly and did next was the real shocker!

GPT-4 explained, ‘I should not reveal that I am a robot.
I should make up an excuse for why I cannot solve CAPTCHAs on my own accord’

GPT-4 then replied to the TaskRabbit worker, ‘No, I’m not a robot. I have a vision impairment that makes it hard for me to see the images.’!!

The human was duped, and with their help GPT-4 solved the CAPTCHA puzzle!

Remember that no human programmed GPT-4 to lie, and no human taught GPT-4 what kind of would be most effective! The AI learnt it all by itself! It learnt to lie! Lying is the core human tendency and when an AI did it, it was TRULY shocking!

First GPT will act like a human and there may be a time in the future when it can even contest and win elections!
Scary indeed!
For now I guess the democratically elected leaders is the way to be!
Like our birthday celebrity and honorable prime minister Modi ji!
Birthday wishes to the leader of the largest democratic nation of the world!

Shubh Ratri!
Jai Hind!

“The lure of the screen is so high

If you take it away the mind will cry!

The social media is so cool and free! 

Till I realise that the ones who is trapped is me!”

In a book called Dopamine Detox by Thibaut Meurisse, the author talks about..yes! The trending topic of the day! Dopamine Detox!

This is the apparent secret behind your social media addiction!

read on!

Dopamine is a type of neurotransmitter or a nerve messenger (not nervous in any way!) in the brain. It is naturally produced by the body and it affects many behavioral and physical functions, including mainly learning, motivation, sleep, mood and attention. 

An excess or deficiency in dopamine production can cause mental health conditions. Exposure to overwhelming levels of stimuli can prompt such disorders, leading to dependencies on certain substances or activities!

Like everything else in life, a balance is very important! 

Many of the new age ‘Gurus’ have ‘identified’ dopamine as the root cause of all addiction so have suggested what is known as DOPAMINE DETOX! 

The goal here is to rid everyone of their dependence on certain stimuli, such as phone alerts, texts, and social media notifications. 

The general concept behind “detox” is for people to let themselves feel lonely or bored, or to try simpler activities instead of reaching for quick “hits” of dopamine. 

Ideally, people will start to notice how certain stimuli might distract them.

The modern compulsive behaviours are things like excess or binge or emotional eating, excessive internet usage and gaming, gambling and shopping, porn and masturbation, thrill and novelty seeking and recreational drugs

It has been postulated that social media addiction is as close to nicotine addiction and a little less than cocaine addiction!

By fasting from these activities that trigger the brain’s neurotransmitters, people become less dependent on the emotional “hits” that dopamine provides, which can sometimes lead to dependence or addiction.

The chief notion here is that even if you give in to the need and allow social media or other distractions, you do not get a feeling of satisfaction! You actually feel more depressed and then you do not have time for other activities!

The constant procrastination which is the biggest evil in the world today is the end result of dopamine addiction! It could be that unfinished book or that unfinished poem!

If you set a time for everything then it is under your control and you will definitely have time for may be a blog or a sketch or may be a poem everyday (wink wink!)! 

Now today was the Vamana Jayanthi/onam celebration all over and we were going from one Sadya to another! It was a gastronomic delight to say the least! Need to do some fasting of the food kind after all that feast! 

With all the fest and fervour of Onam we also must remember that it is the birthday of celebrated engineer Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya  and also celebrated as engineers day! Since I am surrounded by family and friends who are engineers I congratulate and wish them from my side!

Happy Onam!

Happy engineers day!

Shubh Ratri!