Kolkata, Feb. 2 -- The rapid advance of Artificial intelligence poses threats for surgeons, software engineers and billions of jobs worldwide, scientist and scholar at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry, Sraddhalu Ranade, has warned, calling the transformation "irreversible" and more disruptive than any previous technological shift. Speaking at the SKC Memorial Trust Lecture at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture (RMIC), Golpark, Ranade said AI has had a "radical and destabilising" impact on humanity over the past three years, challenging every field of human endeavour.
"For the first time, humans have encountered an entity that is not marginally better, but ten to a hundred times more efficient, with the ability to influence hu...