Planning
For RealTime Event Response Management
By David Ash
About
This Book
Rama
spent many years focusing on computer science and especially
artificial intelligence (AI). His view was that as Buddhist
monks, we need to learn to function effectively in the world
-- and learning about computers was very important in the technological
age in which we live. He foresaw the rise of computers as a
strong cultural phenomenon long before most people understood
their power, and he encouraged his students to pursue careers
in computer science. This helped his students to succeed materially,
to develop strong energetic mind patterns, and to ground their
spiritual lives. The spiritual must, in Rama's view, always
be well grounded in the physical. Computer science was a big
part of what provided that grounding in Rama's teaching career
Rama
saw AI as the next step -- he saw that eventually the whole
world is going to run on AI. Rama said that computers would
achieve human level intelligence by the end of our current incarnation.
He said that right now, AI is just operating at the theoretical
level -- in the labs of MIT, CMU, Stanford, and other research
centers -- but that he was making it his mission in life to
bring AI out of the labs and into the real world. Shortly thereafter,
I had a dream in which Rama said he would use this book, Planning
for Real Time Event Response Management, to empower my
career.
A
couple of weeks later a publisher agreed to publish the book
co-authored by myself and a long-time AI colleague from Stanford.
The
book is about theoretical artificial intelligence -- it is a
book about how to use the theory of AI to enable computer programs
to make difficult decisions under the tough time constraints
of the world we live in.
The
next step -- what I am working on right now through my company
Real Time Agents, Inc. -- is to take the ideas from this book
and apply them to the real world. The ideas developed in this
book can be applied to the fields of finance, aviation, robotics,
medicine, web search, project management, and pretty much any
other field of human endeavor. What we need to do now is to
realize Rama's vision by doing it!
David
Ash