Raju Korti
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi has an innate gift for making news -- mostly for wrong reasons. The forty-plus man-boy may have become a butt of ridicule with an endless stream of concocted and real jokes but he manages to find silver linings. If the party sources are to be believed, Rahul is headed to the United States where he is likely to address a gathering on Artificial Intelligence, the science that makes machines think like humans.
At the Silicon Valley, Rahul "will expand his thoughts about artificial intelligence". The two key words in that quote from the party sources are 'thought' and 'intelligence'. It presumes Rahul can think and has the human intelligence to hold forth on something as technical as Artificial Intelligence.
The party is genuinely convinced that drafting Rahul to an utterly scientific pursuit as Artificial Intelligence will bring back knowledge and implement it at the policy level in the party's vision documents. It is anybody's guess what would be Rahul's intellectual investment for the knowledge returns that the Congress party is desperately seeking to get. Of course, all this subject to whether the party leaders are left with any vision. Given the dismal state of the party, it could do with some Artificial Intelligence to pep it up since all semblance of human intelligence has proved counter-productive.
Rahul invariably manages to get the country's ears when it comes to offshore visits. With as much cynicism as Prime Minister Narendra Modi does for his foreign jaunts. Remember the long sabbatical that he devoted to introspection -- which he called meditation -- after the party's debacle in the 2014 elections. If there was any tangible outcome of that meditation it has not reflected in Rahul's speech and action. Recently he met Biotechnology experts in Norway although little to nothing is known as to what transpired in that meeting. It needs more than intelligence to understand the connection between Congress and Biotechnology. Unless Biotechnology can help it arrest the party's sliding electoral graph after a series of shattering defeats and anti-incumbency sentiment.
I recall celebrated Physicist Stephen Hawking saying that the Artificial Intelligence -- a science still in its infancy -- will wipe out the human race one day. I hope the Congressmen survive to see that day.
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| Rahul Gandhi. (Grab from Congress party website) |
At the Silicon Valley, Rahul "will expand his thoughts about artificial intelligence". The two key words in that quote from the party sources are 'thought' and 'intelligence'. It presumes Rahul can think and has the human intelligence to hold forth on something as technical as Artificial Intelligence.
The party is genuinely convinced that drafting Rahul to an utterly scientific pursuit as Artificial Intelligence will bring back knowledge and implement it at the policy level in the party's vision documents. It is anybody's guess what would be Rahul's intellectual investment for the knowledge returns that the Congress party is desperately seeking to get. Of course, all this subject to whether the party leaders are left with any vision. Given the dismal state of the party, it could do with some Artificial Intelligence to pep it up since all semblance of human intelligence has proved counter-productive.
Rahul invariably manages to get the country's ears when it comes to offshore visits. With as much cynicism as Prime Minister Narendra Modi does for his foreign jaunts. Remember the long sabbatical that he devoted to introspection -- which he called meditation -- after the party's debacle in the 2014 elections. If there was any tangible outcome of that meditation it has not reflected in Rahul's speech and action. Recently he met Biotechnology experts in Norway although little to nothing is known as to what transpired in that meeting. It needs more than intelligence to understand the connection between Congress and Biotechnology. Unless Biotechnology can help it arrest the party's sliding electoral graph after a series of shattering defeats and anti-incumbency sentiment.
I recall celebrated Physicist Stephen Hawking saying that the Artificial Intelligence -- a science still in its infancy -- will wipe out the human race one day. I hope the Congressmen survive to see that day.
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