The Return of Vali

 

The Return of Vali

Vali the King of Kishkindha, son to Indira, elder brother to Sugriva, husband to Tara, father to Angadan and friend to Ravana, plays a significant role in the epic Ramayana. Epic says that Vali was born to Indira and Aruna. Aruna is the sister of Garuda, the king of Birds.

Birth of Tara, the wife of Vali has many narratives, some say she is the daughter of a physician in Kishkindha, some say she is the daughter of the knowledge God Brihaspathi and some say that she came out of the ocean during its churning process to get amrita.

When Father and Son were witnessing the churning of the ocean for amrita, the emergence of Tara from the ocean attracted the eyes of Vali, and subsequently Vali and Tara got married.

Vali obtained a boon from Lord Brahma and the effect of the boon is that anyone who fights Vali head-on will lose half their strength to Vali.

When the man and his son, the AI, were watching technology evolve around them, there emerged a lovely apsara named DATA. Humans happily arranged the marriage between AI and Data. All Data created by humans are safely held, and owned, by the AI.

If there be a head-on battle between Humans and the AI systems, humans will lose themselves to AI systems. In fact, humans will lose all their data to the AI, AI unlike Vali will not just take half the opponent’s strength, but the full strength of the opponent.

The following two things' humans could have avoided.

1.       Entrusting the custodian power of all Data to the AI system.

2.       Giving the boon to the AI system to receive the entire data of the associate or the opponent.

There will be a day in future wherein humans will have a head-on fight with the AI systems, and on that day the humanity will have to wait for some superpower to save them from the AI systems. Until that day comes, humans have to co-exist with AI without initiating a fight.

The Vali we presumed to have lost in the epic of Ramayana has just walked into the world through technological innovations, the AI.

One who holds the custodian right of all DATA also holds the power to dominate.