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Artificial Emotion from 1 & 0 Digital India...

Aurunima Samad- example.” he drew available. J’s weighted 1>>facilities, and then IITM and NCMRWF society with IT-en-
dar: Prof. G was bent smaller boxes inside resultwouldprobablybe software development have been included in ableddevicesandmod-
over his greasy therectangle. anger, frustration. P and maintenance, in- theWorld’sTOP500list ern techniques coupled
worktableagain. “A, identifyfruits.” could suggest stomping cluding hardware and of November, 2020. with newer and newer
“Namaskar Prof. G!” “B,associatefruits of feet and throwing networking services, Internet users in methodsoflearningand
“You seem to have had tosocietalappeal.” things.” bothinIndiaandabroad. India are now the sec- teaching. Now digital
an argument with “C,learn health “Doyouseehoweasy We may mention the ond largest in the ecosystemisvisible,and
someone?”heasked. benefitsof fruits.” it is to generate anger world. India has gone isinfactreshapingmany
“About a sillyscience “D, evaluate one’s anddesire,evengreed?” names of ECIL, TCS
fictionnovel.Hesaidwe health; D1, physical “But they would not and CMC, and later a long way in regard systems particularly in
would be soon so good health & D2, mental feelthecompulsionto?” NIC. to the mobile penetra- agriculture, healthcare
that we would be mak- health.” “Of course they One should mention tion in different areas and in e-governance as
ingrobotsthatwouldbe the names of two per- country since its first well.Though we have
betterthanus,wouldde- sons, Rajiv Gandhi and demonstration in started the process of
sire power and might Sam Pitroda, who in the 1973 worldwide. The digital transformation
oppress us.” 80’s, provided thrust on first call in India with to have the desired
“Is it not impossible computer literacy internet services by goal of making Digi-
for a machine to feel? amongst the general VSNL was also made tal India, the digital
And their basic struc- public,despiteresistance on August 15, 1995. divide unfortunately
ture doesn’t support from some corners. There have been sig- still exists in many
desire!” nificant earnings in parts of India, in re-
Prof. G turned to India, over these years,
the board and marked hashadtremendousim- software exports with spect of affordability
a cluster of dots as Image source:www.google.com pacts in various sectors nearly three million and accessibility and
sensors, then feel- like banking, railways, software profession- its proper usen in
ings. He then drew a “Of course, these in would, if J functions hospitals, healthcare,
big empty rectangle; turn are themselves properly and a unit for tourism, to name a few.
then a cluster of small resultant of other self-awareness is in- The initial problem of
asterisk marks, la- seemingly independ- serted between it and P, importingsupercomput-
belled actuators, and ent units.” like in children. Human ersledustothedevelop-
acions. “E, request for fruit brains are computers ment of indigenous
“This is not a tem- based on calculations after all, designed by supercomputers in the
plate of a machine from the afore-men- better hands than ours. early 80’s, when two
but of an infant’s tioned units.” Even the most compli- companies CDOT and
brain. Do you notice “Seen singularly, cated of our decisions
the similarities? these units seem simple boil down to numerous CDAC were estab-
Given consummate enough; they also exist 1sand0sastheleavesof lished. CDOT has
sensing abilities, a as apps nowadays.” acascadingtreeofcom- developed many
machine can feel like “Now, J records parisons.Artificialintel- supercomputers,
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Now, the algorithm various circumstances. (attempt of) mimic of forecasting; the recent
for interpretation….” And P executes actions real intelligence. Artifi- three, PARAM SID- als. Digital transfor- many applications.
he tapped on the based on results of J.” cial emotion will be so DHI-AIranking63,and mation has radically *DevaprasannaSinha
empty rectangle. “Suppose E’s result is as well.” the other two revolutionized our *Fellow,Computer
“This is where we a request for a banana *Software Engineer, PRATYUSH and lifestyles to form an Societyof India
could be lacking; an but bananas are not Robert Bosch devaprasannasinha@
aurunima94@gmail.com MIHIR developed by information-centric
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Seven Minute.... ternships, and completing doctoral dissertation, listiccruisevelocity,flyingsupersonicparachutes,and
1>>to listentoher. engaged her from Mission Cassini to ultimately reviewing different sites for Rover landing “because
the Mars Rover Mission for the last eight years. “I
simulationisnotalwaysthatpredictive.”Therewere
LiketheotherAmericans,SwatiMohan,whocalls
herself a rocket scientist and engineer, loves present- wenttoanew world,”she quips. otherpanicmomentsaswellincludinganearthquake.
Dr. Mohan, a mother of two girls, says it would
“Allitrequiredwas empathyandsupport,”Dr.
ingherselfthroughthePowerPoint. Her“lifelessons not have been possible for her to be a leader without Mohanasserts.
on the road to success” is based on three principles: her “super-supportive parents and husband, who is Is she a foodie? She smiles and answers that
•Know and acceptwho you are alsoadoctor,anotherleaderintheCovidtime.”Ihad she likes the Indian street food whenever she
•Activelydo your best tostrikeabalancebetweenspouse,family,friendsand visits her home state of Karnataka. The vendor
•Createyour ownsupportsystem others “so that you can form a team respecting roasting corns in an open oven is a site that she
While in school what had she wanted to be?
It was easy for her to be a doctor because her eachother.” relishes. She doesn’t know whether there is a
She gleefully dubs her Mars Landing Mission,
link between science and spirituality. Dr.
family including her parents, who had long mi- “theSevenMinutesofTerror.”Theyhavebeenpiling Mohan also reveals that in her career journey
grated to the US before, is full of physicians. telemetry data, studying satellite dynamics and bal- she felt “more pressure in the male
“But physics was easy and biology was harder dominated world of space science and tech-
to me. I then switched focus to engineering. nology.”
My favouritemoviewas StarTrekandtomespace Before I was planning to shoot the final question
meantNASA.” whether she would like to come back to India as a
So, from Heyfield School her natural desti-
nation was Cornell University to study space space scientist, the connection got snapped and de-
spite my heroic efforts as a digital dud, I couldn’t
engineering, then to California Institute of restore the link. All I could hear were her words
Technology, and finally to Massachusetts In- buzzing,“everyone’s journey will be different.”
stitute of Technology. Her systematic transi- *Prasanta K. Bose
tion from one abode of learning to another, * Journalist and Science Writer,
necessitating attending camps, enjoying in- boseprasanta@hotmail.com