Future of Humanity in an Increasingly Artificial World | Debolina Mishra | TEDxIIMIndore
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmgv5iR8okc Video ID: Mmgv5iR8okc ============================================================ Transcriber: Hussam Kherbek Reviewer: Walaa Mohammed Good afternoon, all of you. And a warm welcome to this stock. I think I was talking to my post makers here for a valuable insight that was given and I would like to modify my speech a bit for sure. Not to be repetitive, but I think it has been wonderful the way they have explained both the pros and cons, how it benefits and what the danger lies them. So let me tell you why this. I am not an expert in it and I don't come here from that point of view. I am here as an average, intelligent human being being exposed to AI in the daily life, and that is probably what is happening. Same with you and me. Right. So let me ask my asking, you know, start by asking you this. How many of you would want to know whether AI is consuming you or you are consuming an AI show of hands? And is there a fear in your mind that what is going to be the outcome of humanity, like the topic we have today, the future of humanity in an increasingly artificial world, Right. Would you want to impact that humanity? And we. Yeah, for sure. Fun, Wonderful, wonderful, great. So I have a number here for you. I think my introduction has been given well before. So I think here you will see and ask why a banker of 25 years is also in the field and exploring in the field of happiness and mindfulness. Right? So that maybe I’ll have to give you a brief story. I think professionally, the 25 years that I spent and more so, you know, has been a wonderful journey. It's been an exciting journey from a time I remember in the year 2000 and part of banking, we used to call it Y2K. We were awake that night because we didn't know how the accounting in the banking will happen when the clock moves from 9199 9 to 2 000. Yeah. And from that time when in the banking background, we used to have everything in the branch and when everything was centralized, today we are opening up to customers completely in a digital way. Right. To extend the pandemic happened. It didn't really impact us though. We were so worried how it would happen. Right? Let me tell you a bit about myself in terms of how I relate to how this technology and AI has impacted me or not impacted me. So I have been a very spontaneous and a happy child. Nothing in my life has happened as planned. I think my education, my family, my occupation all chose me. And during my life, as I said, I think the strongest point of me would be in the weakest of the situation and the adversities. So I knew I would shine in my skin in space. But the greatest adversity happened in my life when in the year 2012, my husband and soulmate for 24 years was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, which is a cancer of bone marrow. We were given I to remember the doctor in that table in the discussion post all test that well, you have 5 to 8 years. That's all that we had. And in spite of the fact, you know, with what was being told to us, we didn't want to believe it. We were both fighters. We thought we would live it through not a single day that we talk about a day when we will not be together. But in exactly five years, he passed away in my arms on the way to the hospital. I cannot tell you that feeling of incompleteness in me and the helpless in me that I could not do anything. And that took me into a spiral of depression and mental health, even to the extent then five years from then, I didn't have a purpose of life. And you know how I found it. It was miraculously when the strong woman whom I thought was so confident could be invited to the bottom. Somehow, through social media, some videos, some code, some messages popping up would have been there before, but I had not seen it. But now, somehow it started connecting with me. The more I searched, the more I was there, the more it was coming to me. But I was finding a relevance there as a universe was trying to give me a message. Okay though. Now I know it was all designed okay, but it helped me. It helped me to connect with my mentors, with the people who in that community helped me come out of it. And that is how in the last couple of years I'm in the field where I try to help in terms of what I can do in places where we are unhappy, lonely and stuck in life. And that is on a mission that I am to inspire life and impart change. And change is the biggest element here. How do I accept the change that is coming in line today in our reality today? Now, let me ask you this. Okay? All of you have no mobile phone on you. Yeah, I'm sure. Right? Most the time when I see you around me like this. Yeah. Can I ask you that? If you had an option to contact your loved ones and they can contact you would be able to keep your phone aside for separately for us. Is it your lifeline? Is it your best friend today? Yeah. I am very happy for the ones openly truthful. It's okay. It is for most of us. Most of us. Let me tell you of a time when few of maybe none of you will relate to this. But let me tell you this. Okay. So in our times when I would be in my teenage, we used to have a landline for that one opportunity that I spent a lot of time talking to my boyfriend and my husband later from that phone. But I remember my mother used to tell me her to go out to come home before it's dark, but forget it. And they don't want to hear Why? Because she would be running and she would be no way able to reach out for me if I'm not home. For me, I'm a click of a button. My location is available to anyone in the world who wants to know whether my what am I doing? And all the information that you've been using on the phone where actually yours are all their stories you will not remember, but the data. Is there something? Yeah. So the reality is. In terms of how am I using that tool and information available to me? Why am I using it and how am I using it? So going forward, let me give you this data. You know, this isn't globally we know, but people average is having a screen time of six hours of the eight minutes. You know, all of you can check your screen time on the phone. I would urge time and again to check that. Okay. It is good that you are using it. It depends on what you are using it. It could be that, you know, through that you may have been able to reach to your like minded people. Well, in your search of friendship, you know, you have friends around who do not you don't relate to. You could reach out. That’s fine. You may be able to do a learning out of that, a skill that you are developing, amusing that you’re listening and enjoying it. Right. But are you doing it consciously or unconsciously? Is it not that we take our phone and search for it? Close eyes in the morning? Right. First thing is watching our phone right around. I can see those smiles. We can relate. Right? We cannot. It’s become part of our body. The second part of our body. In fact, we treat our phone much better than we treat ourselves by, you know, having rapport before we go to sleep. We put it to sleep first. Put it on the chart right this morning, the will just go right the number. The point here is I am worried and there are many who are worried because please understand, is it that you are reaching out there or is it a design Well, plan sucking you in? Have you realize the notification, the nudge that comes to you while you are looking away puts you back to that screen? Do you realize that I often get this thing new reels, photos from my past. It’s taking me to the past. Take me to the future, man. I know. I have those photographs. You’re thinking of my own. Phone, my own library, and showing. It to me with just some. Yeah, right. So here, if you talk six hours for this. My banker and me. Okay, It is close to eight hours. One productive work day. Right. Okay. I'll give you a value of money for it. But you can think. Okay, let’s slide another data. This is a data around Covid. The just. It happened in our spend playing video games for a week and looked at the, you know, just in terms which is worn between the age of 26 to 45. Who who is that? 26 to 45. Our largest contributor to the GDP. I am worried. Yeah. Why? My question to you is, and this is in my mind and I don’t have an answer to it. Okay. Isn't that by our human nature, we are averse to change because of the unknowing, the uncertainty? Generally, we don’t we are not prepared for it. We don’t like something that we don’t know. Right. Isn't that nature in us bringing us more to this unreal world, the real versus the real? Because it has got a predictable outcome. And again, you have these three lines. You know, you're on that one. I've got two more to go. I can strategize now in life. I have one. Is it something that within us we are also as much as we are designed, we are being pulled in. Maybe we are not realizing we are the guinea pigs here being experimented to see your responsiveness to the advertisements of the companies who are actually the real clients. I would really urge you to see this movie Call to Action and you want to feel it's not to watch and watch the get. What do we get? Thought provoking. So this is. An interesting experiment I saw recently. Okay, I'll see what technology can do. Critically ill patients were given VR and a motor by which they could experience themselves to be riding a bike, going underwater with the dolphins or riding a gondola and camels of Venice. Imagine experience they would have had. They’re actually feeling that they’re doing it. But the point is, they’re feeling because they are human. It is because of their emotions. They are being able to benefit from what is being provided. Yeah, interesting. Right? So there is so much and that is happening around in which we do in my work, seeing the amount that we use in technology to build an, you know, for the customer experience, for the congestion, the challenges among us. I know what I've seen, how things have changed. So what makes us human? I think the biggest part is emotional intelligence. The balance that we anyhow, as human need to as an icon. If you we're not just talking about intelligence per say, but the ability to be able to look in someone's eyes. You have a smile, a warm, shaken, a warm hug that a human can do. I could have an if technology and it could happen in a hologram here and it could have done a better, better, better performance than me. But that connect would have not happened. Right? So that is what it takes. And the balance that is required in terms of how I keep that, in terms of how I use this technology that is with us. So of course, there’s a lot of risk that is coming to us. I’ll take one example here for my daughter . She’s a 3D artist. So I asked this question, but it looks like, you know, five years from now it could be and it's already happening that I could automatically make a complete movie. Okay. Could run it musical. What will happen to the creative field? So the answer was she said that now, if I given an example, a command to say that generate a design of a green swamp monster. Okay. It will definitely be green and it will definitely look a bit like Shrek in a way, because it would go through thousands of references that human has created from the data and create its own image. So there is, of course, the risk of the, you know, the ethical dilemma. There's a discrimination. We don't know where it is heading us in spite of all that we are benefiting from. Now, of course, any technology that has happened in the history has been for for mankind. By mankind. Right. It is for us how we use it. So in this case, I think we need to be more aware of conscience, how we are using it as oppression, as who am I, what am I doing? How am I benefiting out of this? Right. Look and explore in terms of what other skills avenues. Expand your horizons. Expand your mind. You will find much possible that is there must mix around. And the choice is yours. It is definitely yours and yours only. I can only tell you that in the stock that you know when Covid happened, nobody predicted that coming. Nobody knew how to work around it. Get out of it. It was just the spirit of humanity, the grit, the resilience and the strength that brought us through. Right. It was you. Thank you very much.