The other side of AI
At the beginning of the 2018 film Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, mathematician Dr Ian Malcolm is shown testifying at a US Senate committee debate.Dr M ArokiaswamyIn his opinion the dinosaurs should perish naturally to correct the wrongful cloning done by John Hammond. “We have amassed landmark technological power, and consistently proven ourselves incapable of handling it”, is how Dr Malcolm put it, succinctly. After the dramatic events depicted in the film, in the closing scenes, Dr Malcolm declares the beginning of a neo-Jurassic Age, where humans and dinosaurs must coexist. Life imitates art, it is said. With a wee bit of stretching of the imagination...
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