Anyone who has watched the Terminator trilogy understands the talk of the town regarding Artificial Intelligence. The film series shows the dominance of machines over the human species, portraying the barbarous and vicious side of the former. The fictitious tales of the ‘80s are now being seen by some as the fate of the humans. But the tech-savvy Siri using populace doesn’t seem to understand what the yammer is all about. But those who have seen the clip of Boston Dynamics’ SpotMini a dog-like machine opening up an entrance for its comrades were precipitously terrified thinking that the termination is nigh. The techno world is split over this matter. Every tech giant seems to have their own opinion. The last few months have seen everybody coming up with their views on AI. Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook CEO and Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX even had a little public tiff over the…
By Nitish Kapur