Comment by Deepak Chopra

My fascination with AI led to my recent book, Digital Dharma, and the root of my fascination has to do with the possibility that AI can raise a person’s level of awareness. Artificial intelligence involves machine learning—with massive computation ability an AI bot like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity can imitate human intelligence. As amazing as the accomplishments of AI are, the field has been able to recreate only a few basic operations of the human brain. Even when supercomputers progress much further, which they will certainly do, they still won’t be conscious. So how can a machine raise anyone’s consciousness? That was the underlying question that Digital Dharma sets out to answer.