This is a blog I wrote in 2013, something that is no longer on the internet, so I am reposting it for nostalgia. I wrote this, and in 2023, the very same AI I predicted all those years back came for my job. I lost my job to automation. 2013 Article down below: Can machines think, how can they think, and why should they think? Those are the questions being raised by many scientists these days. It is a hot topic in many blockbuster movies, and ‘I, Robot ’, the new blockbuster

Me and the world Have you ever had a moment where fear stripped you down to something so exposed, so undefended, you didn’t recognize what was left standing afterward? Mine was a stone and wood bridge in the Western Ghats, decades old, built for a stream that had turned, that night, into something with teeth. The rain was the kind you can’t see through. My wife was in the passenger seat doing the thing people do when they’re trying not to show the kids they’re afraid, and it