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"AI is already happening today and it is pervasive, often invisibly embedded in our day-to-day tools and as part of complex technological systems."
"Darwin and Freud dethroned our beliefs of exceptionalism, our feelings of superiority, and our fantasies of control; today, artificial intelligence seems to deal yet another blow to humanity's self-image"
"Machine learning can be used to recognize faces (and even recognize emotions based on analysis of the faces), make search suggestions, drive a car, make personality predictions, predict who is going to re-offend, or recommend music to listen to."
"Scientists used to create theories to explain data and make predictions; in machine learning, the computer creates its own models that fit the data"
"The danger is, once again, the exercise of power without knowledge and (therefore) without responsibility—and, worse, others being subjected to this"
"Even if transparency were desirable and possible, it may be difficult to realize it in practice. For example, private companies may not be willing to reveal their algorithms because they want to protect their commercial interests."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.