Generative AI must evolve into ReGenerative AI
Today, businesses are leveraging Generative AI to feel powerfully creative as the Hindu god Brahma, known as the Generator, who kept on generating entire universes, without bothering to sustain them (akin to parents who “produce” children without caring to “raise” them).
But in India, Brahma is not revered. Actually there are very few temples dedicated to Brahma anywhere in India.
The rockstars in the Hindu pantheon are Vishnu and Shiva.
Vishnu is known as the Preserver. He symbolizes responsibility and dependability. He is the epitome of sustainability: he teaches you to sustain (nourish) what you created — whether it is children, cultures, or nations.
Shiva is the Dissolver. He is the “spiritual cataract surgeon” who removes your illusions (Maya) and enables you to see Reality as it is. He embodies detachment and gives you the courage to “let go” and “move on” in life, rather than cling to what no longer serves you
Altogether Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva — known as the Trimurti (3 forms of Divinity) — represent the cycle of regeneration where everything has a beginning, a middle, and an end — and this cycle repeats itself again, again, and again.
In my upcoming book The Frugal Economy (Wiley + Thinkers50), I give inspiring examples of businesses and cities leveraging AI not just to generate stuff, but to sustain what truly matters (people, places, planet) and let go of the old “mental models”.
It’s time for Generative AI to grow up and mature into ReGenerative AI.
Images of Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva (Source):
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_roundel_of_Brahma.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VishnuHindu.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shiva_meditating_Rishikesh.jpg
