YATRA ENDS, GOAL UNACHIEVED

fertile nature of the human mind that can conjure up imaginary worlds to convey profound insights. And then, there is ChatGPT. No matter which line one prompts the machine with, it spits out a few paragraphs mimicking the human mind.

Magical Realism and AI

Gabo makes us marvel at the human ability to understand our origins, internalize our journey through civilizations, observe the mundane, day-to-day life, and convey a deeper sense of meaning and belonging that fills our hearts with contentment when we turn the last page. Ironically, ChatGPT uses similar means to achieve fairly pedestrian ends. The Generative Pretrained Transformer (GPT) – built on something called a large language model – takes in everything ever written in a particular language, calculates the probability of any word following a given word, and strings together humansounding sentences. Gabo playfully mocks the cyclical nature of human endeavors in the hope of liberating our souls. ChatGPT exploits the cyclical math of words to ahul Gandhi’s long march concluded in Jammu and Kashmir amidst heavy snow blizzard in Srinagar. The end of Bharat Jodo Yatra on January 30 coincided with Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination on this day 75 years ago. Was it Rahul’s coming of age moment? The Mahatma laid down his life for the country’s unity and Rahul’s march was also undertaken to unite the nation. How far he will be successful in achieving that goal only time will tell, but the Congress scion must gear up for a long and tougher journey that lies ahead along with mountain high challenges.

The challenge is to unite the opposition parties to put up a joint front against the BJP in

Had Gabo, as his adoring fans call him, been alive today, he would have begun with ‘A few days later, as he put a gun to his head, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember his lonely midnight doomscrolling that introduced him to ChatGPT’ keep us trapped in a linguistic status quo.

Where will it take us?

ChatGPT evokes fatalism of a completely different kind. At one level, it is just another, and utterly predictable, step in the long march of technological progress. The geek in me asks: If an assembly line can automate and obviate physical labor, what is wrong in ChatGPT automating the mental labor of stringing together words? Who are we, if not elitists, to benefit from the efficiencies assembly lines bring and lament the banality of the language ChatGPT

The end of Bharat Jodo Yatra on January 30 coincided with Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination on this day 75 years ago. Was it Rahul’s coming of age moment?

The Mahatma laid down his life for the country’s unity and Rahul’s march was also undertaken to unite the nation

2024. That being the probable purpose of the Yatra, he would be embarking on that journey with a handicap. Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, West Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee and Delhi’s spits out without even a moment’s worth of ‘thought’?

While the world is still in thrall of the capabilities of the latest version of ChatGPT, the perils of using such AI for automating writing are already staring at us. A recent report in the Washington Post summarizes how AI created a journalistic disaster for a media outlet, forcing it to issue countless corrections. Soon enough, pitfalls of such advances will sow socio-political divisions, prompting ethicists and politicians to call for meaningful regulations. As this author has argued before, AI engineers will have to grapple with issues of technology for its own sake vs. the democratic systems that enable free inquiry, challenging authority, and maximizing human capital.

Whatever the future holds, it will certainly chip away at our sense of what it means to be human. The fatalist in me even wants to believe that one hundred years of ChatGPTude will produce a masterpiece like Gabo’s. The radical and romantic in me is screaming inside, begging me not to bet on it!

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Arvind Kejriwal have expressly distanced themselves from the Yatra and the Congress. How will Rahul reach out to these leaders and convince them that joining ranks is the only way out and that also will decide the success or failure of Yatra. That will require making Congress acceptable to all, which is another challenge.

As for the Yatra’s stated objective of ending hate between people of different faiths there is no scope for disagreement. But it is easier said than done. It is undoubtedly the most desperately needed medicine for the country at this hour and it is also difficult to administer because of rabid elements’ constant attempts to subvert all attempts at harmonious co-existence.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. Buddha

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