Geometry of AI

When we look at Sree Chakra, without its religious symbolism, our initial impression is "rich!" which is the meaning of Sree. Within it there are triangles or two-dimensional projections of pyramids, such as the wonders of the world that are believed to be gateways to the nether world for the rich who can afford. The Chakra in Sanskrit means a "wheel" that connotes circular motion or cyclical nature of the world.

Economists, meteorologists, astrologers, statisticians et al. predict many future events based on the cycles of market indexes, weather conditions, planetary orbits, and so on. A favorable planetary transit, for instance in Hora Astrology, is indicated by a sine curve with increasing amplitude on the positive side of the horizontal axis. Whereas the same sine curve trending below the horizontal axis is considered as misfortune. The famous bell curve that segregates highly intelligent people from the rest in any given environment is a snapshot of a much larger cyclical pattern.

The geometric shapes of hindu temples have been depicted in the agama sastra. Applied to domestic conditions the same is vaastu. The idea of concentric circles has been around for ages in all cultures but recursion is its relatively new vintage that is demonstrated in the Mandelbrot fractal geometry that leads one to believe god exists in symmetry such as Artha-naareswara in a macroscale and pairs of opposite charges or spin in the subatomic scale. The endless universes traversed in Leelopakhyana of Vasishta Yoga in Ramayana could be the symmetry associated with Russian dolls or the familiar paper weights made of glass depicting snow fall on a house with a similar paper weight that could be an endless recursion. Come to that the snow flake itself is made of repetitive hexagonal patterns.

How about the current buzz in the town AI? First off, the perspicuous market watchers announced the AI companies are trading in a circular fashion feeding into each other from investment into production and back to investment. This is unlike the last century's brilliant tax incentive given to American companies that invest into their own R&D so that the time it takes to train competent people who can earn patents be compensated adequately. AI is anything but. Websites and authors clinging on to copyrights are held up high and dry by the heartless web crawlers and scrapers. The expected digital dividend never came through. In his book Metamagical Themas the author Hofstadter showed a picture of snakes swallowing tails in endless fashion which is AI as of now.

To understand this, one has to explore human nature called lobha. It is one of the arishadvargas which are: kama, krodha, mada, matsara, lobha and moha. As children we have seen adults play a game called "bracket" with their hard-earned money in the hope that a phone message from the "headquarters" would pick them to avail themselves of loans in preference over others. A member requiring an immediate surgery would be overlooked if his neighbor trying to add an extra room to his house was picked. It later morphed into "chit funds" which were regulated by the government much like banks.

In the American context extreme lobha was demonstrated by Bernie Madoff's ponzi scheme. The dedicated wiki page defines the Ponzi schemes as: "fraudulent investment operations that pay out returns to investors from money paid in by subsequent investors rather than from any actual profit earned from the operation of a business". Pyramid schemes are a variation where "a business structure that pays more for recruiting new members or distributors than it does for selling actual product. Each of these new members usually pay an entrance fee, which is used to pay the people above them." A prominent example with many NRI's involved is Amway.

The list goes on with more sophisticated hawala, money laundering, insider trading, etc. We humans have perfected these so much so that it will be a miracle if AI can figure out the symmetry, specifically geometry in them. So far AI is at best hierarchical like a tree. The chain of reasoning is transferred down all the way from one's terminal to the datacenter and the response is moved up to the top. Chances are if you ask an AI what its geometrical shape is, it wouldn't know.

So to all those calling AI a bubble, one has to say they are like fish unaware of bait and switch. Once humanity is sufficiently addicted to AI, there will be hue and cry about "cartels" dispersing modicums at a speed and rate the internet allows while NIMBY people put up with data centers in their backyards.

Thus, what goes around, comes around is not only just a fancy toy but also a slap on the AI's cheek for not learning or understanding the geometric patterns given down to us from the cosmos starting with Om, Hindu Swastika, Sree Chakra, Chinmudra, Abhayahasta, Devanagari....

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