Hello, AI World!
I'm excited to share my journey as I start integrating AI into my apps focused on making original Sanskrit texts easy-to-read for Western students.
For the past 3 years, I have been living in India learning how to study ancient Sanskrit texts. My nomadic travels around the world made me highly interested in exploring the ancient ideas contained in these texts in as-much-as-possible original form vs reading (often inaccurate / misleading) translations and retellings of others.
I have recently graduated with an MA in Sanskrit Studies from the Manipal Academy of Higher Education and am very excited to combine my new beginner knowledge of Sanskrit and what I have learned with my background in primarily iOS Development. There are so many Sanskrit tools to build to help with decoding these texts for Western beginners like myself.
Lucky for me, as I started getting ideas and building the initial versions of these Sanskrit tools, the AI boom has happened. While AI has been there for a while, it is with ChatGPTs innovation that it has become something that not only big companies can afford to implement but indie devs like myself as well, and it is something that now every consumer expects. It is also something that I see as a perfect fit for exactly the types of Sanskrit tools that I’m working on building.
However, the gap for us iOS Developers, used to being on the front-end of things, to understanding AI and how to use it is HUGE! I’ve been learning as much as possible in the last few weeks and will continue to learn as I start implementing AI into my next set of Sanskrit apps. Special thanks and shout-out to Vatsal Manot for helping me get the basics!
I love learning in public, I love writing. So this blog is meant to document and share my experience and learnings in applying AI in my apps. I’m also hosting workshops from myself and developers in our community at try! Swift World - I’ll be hosting my first workshop Demystifying AI: Exploring LLMs, Embeddings, Image Diffusion Models, etc for iOS Development this Friday on the basics of AI for iOS Developers.
I hope you join in on my journey!
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Hi Natasha,
That is great to hear of your travels to India and Sanskrit in iOS! Have been going to a scalar wave center with technology from Dr. Sandra Rose, Michael http://eesystem.com
So this is a healing technology, and actually displays Sanskrit on the screen while sending scaler waves and photons into the room.
Here is a sampling of what the Sanskrit output looks like!
https://youtu.be/bp89t6n3lak?si=a6iXbnTxtxH8mxVU
It has been a long time since Mobile Makers in Chicago and glad to see you are still in the Mobile space doing such great work!
Best,
Chuck