00:00Within the next five to ten years, I am naming two countries, the United States and China.
00:04In every household, there will be an AI-enabled robot. It has already begun.
00:08In many homes, it will not only do all the household work, it will also monitor you.
00:13The medical reports will be with it as well.
00:14It will read your behavior, it will even keep you happy.
00:16This epidemic of loneliness, many have proposed this as its solution.
00:21AI-enabled dolls that behave exactly like a companion to the extent that they can even go through a breakup
00:27with you.
00:29Whatever behavior you are capable of, a machine can replicate all of it.
00:32You won't even be able to tell that it is a machine.
00:34In fact, most of us already live machine-like lives.
00:36You think you can tell whether it's a machine and you say, it's not a machine.
00:39It's my friend, my mother, my father, my husband, my wife.
00:42If by consciousness you mean the kind of behavior that can be displayed by a machine, then it will do
00:46that as well.
00:47Don't be troubled by it.
00:47You are not a machine only when there is a longing for liberation within you.
00:51When there is enough self-knowledge in you to say, I don't want to live like a machine.
00:56That is the only dimension that matters.
00:58That alone is what we call the Atma.
01:00The Atma is that which is completely personal, original and cannot be replicated.
01:05And if there is nothing like this within me, then I too am just a machine, am I not?
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