BAPS IT Convention
On January 18, 2026 BAPS Banglore temple hosted IT convention event from morning to evening. More than 375 participants.
Here are few take away points
1. "Changing Trends of AI in technologies" by Prof. Rahul De
Prof. Rahul De' is founder and CEO of https://www.memoricai.in/ He provided nice academic insight, history of AI, present state and future. AI is about inference and inference is predications, classification and generative output
Human brain has 80 to 86 billion neurons (cells).
Evolution of AI
1. ANI : Artificial Narrow Intelligence
2. GNI : General Narrow Intelligence
3. ANI : Super Narrow Intelligence
In 1966 a professor Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT developed first chatbot by name ELIZA. It acts like a Rogerian psychotherapist. People like it so much. Later on, we had to convince, that it is not a real person. It is just a computer program that simulates human conversation, through pattern matching and keyword substitution.
Late in 1980 John Searle did "Chinese Room Experiment". Here, a non-Chinese speaker in a room, just manipulate Chinese symbols manually and produce fluent responses without understanding the language. It proves that just through syntax (rule-following) alone, computer cannot achieve semantics (genuine understanding or consciousness).
Probably that is why today, GenAI has caveats like hallucinations, jail breaking, bias, privacy violations and unfair responses. In the context of bias, he mentioned about recent movie "Human in the loop" Available on Netflix. "An indigenous woman works as an AI data-labeler after returning to her village with her children, but soon questions the human bias in machine learning."
He shared some statistics
- - 2.5 billion prompts are handled by ChatGPT alone in a year.
- - 2.4 million models are present at hugging face
- - 50 billion USD are spent for AI in year 2025.
- - 95% firms fail in GenAI adoption.
- - We achieved 15% improvement by GenAI
The above numbers raised serious questions that does spending behind GenAI is worth?
He mentioned few books and categorised all AI adopters in four groups. Boomers (books by Ray Kurzweil), Doomers , Skeptics and Critics "Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI"
2. panel discussion on "Ways to overcome Challenges in IT"
One of the discussion point was about reducing 95% failure rate in 2026
We need:
- - Automated task workflow
- - Cross functional aggregation across various departments
- - Collaboration between AI and human
- - Orchestration for AI in day-today work
How can you fail? Your effort (to adapt AI, to retain job etc) can fail. In fact the definition for failure came after industry revolution. During the last century, "Productivity" was more in focus due to industry revolution.
Other points:
Former OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever has indicated that simply scaling up to 1 trillion parameters model will not improve AI capability further.
May be, personalised AI will be next thing
We are humans so
- - we are always optimistic, we have hope.
- - We have ability to adapt.
- - We are creator of AI so we are smarter than AI
We shall remove the fear that we need to learn everything. Yes, we shall learn something new everyday and take its now on NotebookLM. Internet is flooded with many buzzword about AI. We need to separate signal from noise.
Now learning is not same as degree earning.
Now, we need to be aware about all domain. That knowledge shall not be gain by asking ChatGPT.
Few points were discussed about parenting: We shall have 30 min of productive arguments with kids. We will learn AI from the end-user. We shall enable parental control for Internet, OTT. While using AI, be skeptic. You are interacting with product. So product has market, company / organisation behind it, that want to earn profit. AI product is not your friend. More we use LLM, that much brain is unused and lost.
- - Humans are not means
- - Respect life in people
About firing due to AI.
- * If software engineers consider themselves as coder then AI will replace them. They shall consider themselves as problem solver.
- * On lighter notes: Pujya Aksharatit Swami mentioned that we SADHUs are easier to get replace. Chat with AI is available round the clock.
- * On lighter notes: Pujya Aksharatit Swami mentioned
येषाम् न विद्या न तपः न दानम् न ज्ञानम् न शीलम् न गुणः न धर्मः ।।
ते मृत्यु-लोके भुवि भार-भूता मनुष्यरूपेण मृगाः चरन्ति ।
It means: Those who possess no knowledge (Vidya), no penance (Tapa), no charity (Dana), no wisdom (Jnana), no good character (Sheela), no virtues (Guna), and no righteousness (Dharma), are a burden to the earth. Although they look like humans, they roam the earth like animals in human form.
Now this sloka is applicable for knowledge of AI also :-)
During the panel discussion, the floor is open for everyone to ask question via WhatsApp group, that was flooded with many questions.
3. Networking
The audience was divided into many groups. The participants had a round of introductions within group. There was engaging quiz, where all groups participated and the group leader responded to questions on behalf of group.
We had delicious vegetarian, SAATTVIK food. Now some key take away points from post lunch sessions.
4. Work-Life Integration & Wellbeing
“In God we trust. All others must bring data.” - W. Edwards Deming
Here are some shocking data points
- 83% of Indian IT professional are burnout
- 73% of European IT professional are burnout
- 72% are working beyond limit
The data source is ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association)
5 pillars of work life integration
1. Know your why?
What is purpose? It brings impact, mastery and autonomy.
Our health and family should tune to work.
2. Design your system
Define boundaries so you can protect capacity
Bring rhythms by frequent breaks.
3. Recovery and build resilience practices
3.1 Mindful ness and reflection. Moment to moment non-reactive, non-judgmental awareness is mindful ness.
3.2 physical movement
3.3 social connections
4. Align your environment
5. Seek help early
Something about sleep
- Sleep is non-negotiable.
- Sleep hygiene and nutrition
- Stop all screens 60 to 90 min before going to bed. It is digital sunset.
- use eye mask while sleeping.
Next topic was NSANE
Nutrition
Screen Time
Automatic health. He mentioned about book : "Atomic Habit"
Notice Signal
Engage with real people
Remember 3 truths
1. Mind = body. Means if body is unhealthy, means mind is unhealthy. Body can be healthy by making healthy mind
2. Work family balance is important
3. It is still not too late.
Ask your wife, what she expect about husband?
- Rich husband?
- Healthy husband?
- Rich but unhealthy husband?
- burn out person as husband?
3. Personal/Spiritual Fire Chat with Pujya Santo
Along with other relevant questions and guidance by Pujya SAINTs, again IT layoff was discussed. The apparent reason is AI for layoff. The real reason can be poor performance of employee. Extra hiring happens during COVID phase, so now layoff is inevitable. जातस्य हि ध्रुवो मृत्युः Same way, if you have job, you may get fire. If not today then in future, at age of 62 years. Even after 10 years, the present software application has no values. This is also as per SANHYA philosophy. It inspires us to make better documentation of product.
Summary
1. Be happy
2. Worship God.
બી.એ.પી.એસ. પ્રકાશ એપ
પ્રકાશ વિશેષ :
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Disclaimer: The author had put best effort to capture all the points, as per his understanding. It may or may not reflect exact intention of the speaker. So any corrections are welcome. This article is not verbatim
