It's my one of the hobbies of chewing and churning out my literal hunger by whatever comes into my hands of literal worth. I don't know how this hobby developed(..you may call me a geek..) but since my childhood i loved the literature. I read too many story books and comics then, and when I was a teenager I went through serious English and Hindi literature.
But you know advancing to college, and associating myself with computers i became much of a movie addict. But nevertheless novels are still my favourite.
Recently I went through 'PREY' one of the novel by Michael Crichton. He is also the author of 'Jurassic Park' . He writes thrilling and captivating stories and you feel as if you were watching a Hollywood movie.
I liked the novel since it contained many things related to our course. The main character of the story Jack Forman studied Biology and later studied the life cycles of living organisms like swarms, ants etc.. When he switched to Artificial Intelligence (..We had a course on AI last sem and a course on soft computing this sem...) he was able to apply them in algorithms in more sophisticated way, because he had an edge over the other programmers.
He develops a prey-predator system, because most of intelligent system can fail in hostile situations. But the predator system (..the hungry ones..) will always find its goal to prey.
It's about adaptation. His algorithm is used to develop nano robotic swarm cameras which can't be destroyed since they are very small. They can communicate through the limited memory and sensors and telecast images.
But they are not able to survive in the real world, due to high winds and other factors. A company is about to sink, so the decision is taken to unleash them and let them learn on their own. But that's when the contamination occurs, and yes they learn but theirs generation becomes so advanced that they become the real predators and human becomes the prey.
You will have to go through the novel to catch its twists and thrills.
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