Pingla Institute

We are listed in the Australian AI directly!

I hope my paper can be cited and used in the Fijian and Indian education system!

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02055-8

It can also be used to teach the history of science and mathematics in Western countries.

Har Har Mahadev 🙏 ❤️

- Dr Rohitash Chandra

Our latest research about Minerals on Mars with Artificial Intelligence

Launch of our Discussion Series with t~ai Research Group

After a Discussion Series on AI vs Science and Philosophy by Dr Rohitash Chandra , Dr John Hawkins, and Ratneel Deo

Video will be available soon

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Topic: Artificial Intelligence vs Science and Philosophy

Time: 5 pm Wednesday 27th November 2024, Rm 4082 School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW

Note this session will be recorded and may be available via YouTube. Please forward this to people interested in AI and philosophy as our intention is to create a tiny group of experts.

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Abstract:

The history of academic thought begins with philosophy. The original texts were penned by philosophers in antiquity who strove to understand the complex world around them. As our ideas progressed, we formed specific disciplines founded on empirical and rational techniques that allowed intellectual progress. Nevertheless, philosophy has continued to contribute to academic thought, sometimes by just being a source of critique and analysis. One example of this is multi-disciplinary fields like cognitive science, where philosophers like Daniel Dennet and Patricia Churchland have contributed by critiquing and clarifying ideas that come from other disciplines.

Artificial Intelligence is a field that forms one of the other core spokes of cognitive science, it asks us to try and understand the mind by replicating some of its behaviour. As we make progress in this field we find that more questions are being opened up. In addition, these questions encroach on the world of pure philosophy which has always engaged humanity to understand the nature of knowledge, experience, rationality and sentience.

In this discussion, we explore the questions that are emerging from artificial intelligence research as well as the cross-cultural consideration of these technologies and their impact on society. Furthermore, we will focus on the importance of knowledge about philosophical schools such as positivism when it comes to scientific methods, statistics, and machine learning. We will review Western and Eastern philosophical systems about the foundations of modern science and the role of Hindu philosophy such as Pramana and Nyaya.

Host

Ratneel Deo is a PhD student in Machine Learning at the University of Sydney. His research interests are in areas of applied machine learning, Bayesian deep learning and climate extremes.

Panel

Dr Rohitash Chandra is a Senior Lecturer in Data Science at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW Sydney. His research interests are in methodologies and applications of artificial intelligence He is a student of Hindu philosophy and currently working on a research paper about modern science and Pramana, which is related to this discussion.

Dr John Hawkins is a Research Director of the Pingla Institute which is an independent research organisation with a focus on artificial intelligence. He has more than two decades of experience as a data scientist in the industry. Dr Hawkins has a PhD in AI and has a background in Western philosophy.

"Essay on Science and Hinduism published in Nature Human Behaviour"

After 16 months of review with almost 4 stages of review and editing, I got this invited essay published in a high impact Nature journal: https://rdcu.be/dZOKn

The invitation by Nature Human Behaviour Editor was due to my research in the area of Artificial Intelligence for translation, sentiment, and topic analysis of Hindu texts including Bhagavad Gita and Upanishads. I will update links for those in this post later. Please feel free to share this paper in the community and I don't mind it being republished in local newspapers in India and Fiji.

This is a blessing from Mahadev and I could not have done this without your support. Har Har Mahadev ❤️🧡💛

Namaste

Dr Rohitash Chandra

Sad situation in Fiji - poor leadership being questioned:

'We are past talking, it's time for action' Staff at the University of the South Pacific walked off their jobs over failed negotiations with their employer.

Brahmagupta