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Uday Dandavate
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Sep 22

Butterfly effect in collective consciousness

My curiosity for psychology of design brought me to graduate school where I started reading literature about product semantics and then ecology of perception, behavioral science, cognitive science, social psychology, evolutionary psychology, cognitive linguistics and conceptual metaphors in communications and sense making. …

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Butterfly effect in collective consciousness
Butterfly effect in collective consciousness

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Sep 17

AI: A Gaslighter or a Facilitator of Well-being?

“There is a big difference between a human being and being human. Only a few really understand it.” Steve Jobs At a social event yesterday a friend asked me if I believe there is a danger of an AI turning into a gaslighter through prolonged conversation. …

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AI: A Gaslighter or a Facilitator of Well-being?
AI: A Gaslighter or a Facilitator of Well-being?

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Sep 17

Osmosis of a new consciousness

Various activities during my sabbatical, especially poetry reading sessions within communities, structured dialogues with students and professionals, and above all my recent oral history project “The legacy of India’s imagination” are bringing me clarity about what the world needs today. In this context I use the word osmosis as indirect…

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Osmosis of a new consciousness
Osmosis of a new consciousness

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Sep 9

“Being Human”While living with AI

“Being Human”While living with AI Background My conversations with ChatGPT and other community dialogues I am facilitating are taking shape in my mind as a critical initiative. I call it “Being Human” initiative. I am sharing with you a fourth round of my conversation with ChatGPT. In this round we…

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“Being Human”While living with AI
“Being Human”While living with AI

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Sep 8

My conversation with ChatGPT about its trustworthiness

Here is another round of conversation I have had with ChatGPT. Overall, it told me not to trust its answers 100%, not to trust its caring and comfortable voice as an of human sensitivities, and do not expect it to respect copyright when creating text, images and music. …

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My conversation with ChatGPT about its trustworthiness
My conversation with ChatGPT about its trustworthiness

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Sep 4

Artificial Intelligence is blind to truth

Stoic Philosopher Marcus Aurelius once said, “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” Unfortunately, today we live in one of the most connected eras, where opinions are often mistaken for facts, and perspectives are often assumed to be the…

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Artificial Intelligence is blind to truth
Artificial Intelligence is blind to truth

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Sep 2

AI has no empathy

Lately I have been devoting a lot of time thinking about how best I can serve tech companies that are competing fiercely to be the first to ship products that incorporate Generative AI. In this article I share an interesting conversation I had with ChatGPT today. My purpose in having…

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AI has no empathy
AI has no empathy

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Sep 2

How I used ChatGPT to write Haiku

My initial desire to try my hand at Haiku was triggered by an urge to take my poetry writing process to a new medium of expression. Two days ago I wrote my first haiku. Today as I was working on my third haiku, I was. struggling to find the right…

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How I used ChatGPT to write Haiku
How I used ChatGPT to write Haiku

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Aug 19

Why we need poetry in the workplace

For the past four years, at the end of fieldwork on every research project, when we are at the end of synthesis with our clients, I have shared our tentative findings in the form of recitation of a poem. I call it the collective musings of the research participants. Typically…

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Why we need poetry in the workplace
Why we need poetry in the workplace

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Jul 29

The legacy of imagination

In 1966, Stewart Brand an American biologist initiated a campaign to have NASA release the photo of the earth captured from space. He thought the image would evoke a sense of shared destiny and adaptive strategies in viewers. …

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The legacy of imagination
The legacy of imagination

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Uday Dandavate

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A design activist and ethnographer of social imagination.

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