Cyborgs may be able to ward off the existential threat from artificial intelligence - ET CIO

By Snehal Shah In the movie Avengers: Age of Ultron, the Iron Man and Bruce Banner – a genius scientist when he wasn't playing Hulk – built an artificial intelligence system named'Ultron' to help protect the earth. But Ultron – the peacekeeping programme embedded in a synthetic body – turned hostile, making it his mission to eradicate humans from the face of the earth. As earth's fate hung in the balance, the mightiest of Avengers had to come together to save the planet from complete annihilation. Does this, another Marvel Comic story turned into a sci-fi Hollywood film, have a semblance of realism? A couple of years ago a unique experimental self-driving car was released on New Jersey roads, that was not coded or programmed by engineers.