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Poem : When It All Comes Back

What will you do, when it all comes back to you? The ones that you hurt and the ones that hurt you too. What will you do, when it all comes back to you? In the rains of July, when the tears would hide, when the heavens will weep for the moments that slide, what will you do? And when light would be dim, and the sun won’t rise. when all your insecurities would splinter your wise, what will you do? What will you do, when it all comes back to you? In the autumns between winds, when spring seems afar, when the people you abandoned find some other favourite star, what will you do? And when the leaves fall, that were once lush green, and you feel them crumble, right beneath your feet, what will you do? What will you do, when it all comes back to you? In the winters without snow, when cold creeps to your feet, when all you wanted to say, you find dying with the heat, what will you do? And when you finally find the courage to say what you want, but the ones who were eag...

Did your AI let you down?

"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race….It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded." -Stephen Hawking Meanwhile... "Robot passport checker rejects Asian man’s application because 'eyes are closed'." -New York Post Ah well... I don't think this is what he had in his mind when one of the most brilliant and admired minds of our century made his statement (Or maybe he did. Sir Stephen Hawking had a weirdly cool sense of humour). Since the very inception of the concept of AI, science fiction has, with all due credit and respect, created a rather extravagant image of AI in the minds of common people. This has come to a point where thinking of an AI that is, in any parameter, inferior to a Chitti or a Terminator seems dull to them. Since the incidents that are going to be n...