Dharma of digital era | Sivakumar Nandipati| TEDxSCMS Nagpur | Sivakumar Nandipati | TEDxSCMS Nagpur
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPwDRrM1LZ8 Video ID: HPwDRrM1LZ8 ============================================================ last June when we were speaking at a home in front of all family members mobile is also a family member okay and uh my mother tossed an idea why don't we fast on akadashi and we do anadan okay that reminded me the tax saving of atg donation and I immediately delegated that to Alexa as a reminder and I started browsing for the tax failing then I received this SMS not once twice akadashi atg tax support anadan and on the same day two times so I was thinking whether this is divine Whispers or digital algorithms now while mostly it is coincidence I was thinking a little technical is ASR automatic speech recognition possible yes is voice to text conversion possible yes is keywords extraction from the text possible yes is impactful content from the keywords possible yes is communicating back to you possible yes so there is no human intervention to send something like this and that strike the cord today's possibility is tomorrow's reality so we also this this makes us feel that we are being witnessed by the natural elements fire air Aqua NABA sky and and ground from the top of the head to tip of the toes now I feel we are under supervision of the five more digital Elements which is the digital Giants when we are busy typing and swiping these digital Giants are busy listening and learning Facebook or Instagram or any social media knows like your brother who is your best friend who is your crush who is your favorite cousin based on the likes and comments you do correct Amazon like your father knows what are your spending patterns and Netflix like your best friend knows which emotion triggers you keeping the pabas in the elemental form of social media mobile OS e-commerce OT search engine let's see how they connect back social media it can burn you up your profile or lighten up your profile with one viral post it is a fire quality mobile OS like an air it is invisible indispensable e-commerce grounding your needs sprouting with all the discounted offers Earth quality OT content streams and you get drown in the next season water quality search engine like a sky it is vast and expansive don't you see they are beautifully connected from both the sides and this emphasizes the fact the amount of respect we give and the awareness we have with the natural elements we should should have same with the digital Elements which I call it as a pabas puncha digitas for the digital elements very significant amount of your digital footprint is available based on the activity based data but not on the actively keying data are you aware of the Google takeout have you guys ever tried if you take it see suppose for an autobiography of entirely 100 Pages it takes what some 10 MB 20 MP right now if you go to Google takeout and try to extract your Gmail account information where Google stores based on over 65 categories you would often get exceedingly more than 20 GB of the data to download about you and this tells detailed record of your Digital Life when Mahabharata meets digital bhata in Mahabharata it started with the dice game till then K and and pandas are B the digital dice in today's life is mobile and laptops which are charging us on connections time and Trust father goes through the LinkedIn profile of accepting all the connections which he may never communicate mother will go through the YouTube recipes of all the dishes which he may never cook kids they are training for the E training e- gaming of the Olympics but with thumbs not with Limbs and finally we will have one person who would actually go through the WhatsApp statuses of our entire network of friends relatives and submit a detective investigation agency report to back to us that's our grandmother who takes that role so everybody are busy in their life with their own devices today and the only thing which is missing is the dice sound which gets triggered when somebody picks up their phone digital should enhance the relationships but not replace them roll out the meaningful conversations and bet on the louded ones instead and this flawed dice game in the digital in the Kuru Dynasty led to the kurukshetra which is today more like the social media where people are taking SES fighting shouting now the engagement metrics such as likes comments shares have turned out to be a missiles where the obsession with metrics has gone to that stage I have received a post on WhatsApp Shing that please like comment and share this post and that is a farewell post farewell post of somebody somebody has posted a cat post picture of cat now generally in the social media we see three types of patterns why don't you adopt the over supporters of the post and there are 30 comments on this what about dogs the opposers of your post and there are 15 more comments on this and we always think there are only two sets right supporters and opposers but there is one more most most important thing in the social media which are distractors are you aware of the climatic change the person who has posted will think why did I even posted this the are you guys aware of what is the average time a person spends on the social media any guesses it is average time is 2 and half hours now 40% of this is enriched with emotions I'm saying enriched enriched with emotions of anxiety depression and all now the way to handle kurukshetra is Crystal clearly mentioned in the BH you have right to share the ethical and meaningful content you have no right on the number of likes it can get sometimes the likes can be only two including your mother do not let the comments or the shares Drive the purpose of the post deactivating social media profile is not solution it is in action so what should we do we should do our best and detach from the rest that's how we should play the social media game in the modern kurra the battles aren't fought with bows and arrows they are more often fought with awareness intention and discipline let's come back to the discipline have you ever found out you kept on scrolling M till the bottom knowing that you should stop raise the hands if you are guilty so it's such a clever Mage right like chakra yua where people are often caught into it these days we don't need Guru Dron aaras to trap us the autoplay features in Rolling customers who viewed this also viewed this are you watching does this job perfectly every action whether you click swipe Type Tap is a signal can you make a rough estimate what is an average person would do number of signals per day to their mobile how many times average smartphone users interacts with mobile sending any signal typing tapping scrolling 100 study shows 2,617 times per day so this is the high intensity workout you are doing with your thumbs in fact you are doing two tabs every minute even factoring for your sleep these signals are the silent conversations with the powerful ml algorithms on the back end which often gives a detailed starking accurate picture of who you are the point isn't whether the algorithms are tracking us that is taken for granted it is whether we understand what kind of signals or story we are telling about us think of it like an digital body language what we swipe scroll save speaks more deeper than what we actually type right body language speaks more than the voice voice speaks more than the words similar way let me take an example of go trip these days we go for experience these days we go to holidays not for experiences no for hashtags right so suppose you have gone to an Goa portal and downloaded an itinary what will you get next day and email shouting 20% discount on your itinary limited period correct content based signals and when you skip that what will happen algorithm pivots and sends you budget friendly accommodations ad based signals and suppose you are scrolling and seeing in the last in the late nights what will you get Midnight sales last minute offers temporal time based signals and if you are roaming around the store what will you get in store discount location based signals and these cookies and trailing pixels will ensure after even you come after the Goa trip also every portal you visit keeps on bombarding with all the Goa related details till till the life of the tracking pixel you guys know that study also shows that 70% of the content viewed on the YouTube and 35% of the Amazon purchases happen with algorithmic recommendations just hold for a minute and see this 70% of content so if somebody wants to see 30 videos they end up seeing 70 more videos that's forming the 100 videos right so if somebody wants to see one video he seeing two or three more videos and if somebody wants to buy two items from Amazon he's buying one more item even when money is involved that is the impact of the algorithmic recommendations now it is obvious that these algorithmic recommendations are feeding so that they are reinforcing our biases trapping us further into the digital Echo Chambers which is like a chakra how will you break out of this Loop this needs to fire two arrows at a right moment awareness and self- discipline will you be abhimanu who is caught in the infinite scrolling or will you become Arjuna who knows when and how to stop it so that you reclaim your digital identity the are the various signals now story time this is a hypothetical story a work from home employee that day he is working from the park he sat under the shade of the tree the tree is kalpa kpaa for the Indian mythological concept is a wish granting tree now little he knows that it is a wish granting tree so whatever he wishes that it will immediately Grant so he sitting and working then he realized why should I do this job if this work is uh taken away I'll be more relaxed his manager messaged him this task need not be done it is already sorted he kept the laptop IDE now he's thinking why do I need to actually work if I have some five crores or 10 crores I have got my financial Independence then his broker called him and said sir you won a lottery 10 cres he's sing what has happened whatever I think is coming true this place has some superficial Supernatural elements and spirits he thought like this now all the ghosts came before him by seeing the ghosts obviously what will happen he's afraid what if these ghosts are hungry what if they feed on me and the outcome happened the ghost killed him and he died the gist to take from this story this kalpa is exactly similar to generate generative AI which we are using today if you understand the problem in this clearly the reaction to your instruction is so so Swift and quick you don't even have time to rectify it now if your instruction is wrong you have to face the consequences of this earlier things used to take time so if if you thought something wrong you have an opportunity to change which is not there today however now this take coming back to generative AI today have you guys heard of BCI brain computer interfaces which is already there in us so these are the implants which are kept on the human brain for the paralysis patients so that they can control the entire technology and systems with their thoughts not they need not even say even words they can control it now if you have taught something wrong then the system is like it'll finish it immediately because today we are even moving from earlier we are simply doing things today we are transfer we are transitioning from deeply knowing things so we have to know more because the execution part of it digital and AI is doing it the tip of the story is we can't afford to think even wrong so think consciously the future which we are seeing from the terms of kalara the future is not even near it is already here let's come back to realistic Story the era of swiping left for relationships and swiping right for the online orders is where we are correct so in case if you are stuck with some love related issues or financial related struggles or career related struggles we start consuming the respective content be it music blogs videos or anything but what will what are you doing un subconsciously you are keeping you are you are keeping for your account the respective keywords weightage you are increasing it and your problems are solved now you want to come out of it but these recommendations will keep on pulling you back so much that it becomes difficult for you to overcome so how do we solve this periodically audit your digital habits ask yourself am I choosing this or is algorithm choosing this for me collaborate with it in spite of competing with this think before you share and share only what you care consider your digital profile as a movie for which you are the director and here you can't even re-shoot if it goes once then that scene is short so finally after five years will your movie will win a film fair or not is the question you should ask yourself less scroll more Sol so Channel your excess time on the social media to challenge your intellect LinkedIn to LinkedIn learning Instagram to Instagram Creator Studio Google to Google campaign manager Amazon to Amazon Seller place that's how you can keep it effectively for usage and this is mindful engagement so in tra Yuga the battle is fought between two RS humans and asuras in dwapar Yuga battle is fought between two brothers in the same family pandas and kavas in kuga that is this digital era the battle is fought between two two minds of the same person conscious mind subconscious mind humans their Innovations awareness automation control creations and to sum up on the digital Dharma we need to use the tools awareness that is thinking consciously and self-discipline to engage mindfully thank you it was