The world’s smartest company demoed showed its voice recognition and AI system with the person asking the system to setup a hair-cut appointment with the barber. The system understood the command, made the call and set up the appointment. The tech people in namma sillycon city went gaga. But seriously, an appointment with a barber to show off your smartness ? The techies of sillycon city. #sillyconCity (#96)
Deep Blue beat Kasparov in Chess. DeepMind beat Lee Sedol at AlphaGo. Board games ok, road games in sillycon city? The neural network will certainly become mental. The unpredictable sillycon city. #sillyconCity (#90)
He was upset about global warming, with the summer season turning out be super hot. He was a modern dude. Sitting in his air-conditioned room, he fired up the computer and opened change dot org on his browser to collect signatures. Just another idiot in the sillycon city. #sillyconCity (#51)
In today’s world, the smartphone has become one’s closet companion! A creative take on this relationship that ends bloody, titled “Purple heart”. (#238)
The zillion hanging wires that are the bane of modern India seemed one day to communicate to me something profound which I have penned creatively as “wires” So the next time, when you see the terrible tangle in your neighbourhood, don’t be upset, learn from them!
Everyday, we are bombarded with new technology that is humanising machines and making them smarter. At the same time, we also see senseless acts of violence, anger, intolerance, making me question “are we becoming barbarians?”. The thought of this shift of humans becoming barbarians and machines becoming humans tickled my muse. So, where are we headed? The possible answer is in the last stanza of the poem “Machines & Humans”.
The sponsored ad videos of ‘happn’ on FB sparked my muse! She found him on happn Handsome and clean shaven She sent a request for date For tomorrow night at eight Her heart now, hot cinder Little did she know That he was committed To someone on Tinder
“What if humanised digital bots married?” He was AND-OR She was IF-THEN Their parents logical thought it would be Boolean But their marriage turned out to be Herculean She put too many conditions He quietly defaulted She caught his exceptions And sent him to the log To exit, he had to slog And give up the morning jog
Imagining how de-monetisation would affect the stuff inside the computer. Enjoy. CPU ran out of cache It thrashed the disk and SD card came to rescue All because of the ‘daemon’ Note: Daemon is a background program, cache is hi-speed memory.
My younger son asked me question on Java yesterday night.It was raining cats and dogs outside. The drains got clogged and the roads flooded. My muse woke up and connected the Java, Caava (drain in Tamil) and Cloud burst and wrote a poem. Enjoy!
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