Artificial Intelligence v/s Natural Intelligence

“The ‘singularity’ event that scientists talk about in artificial intelligence (AI) — when robots would outsmart human beings in reasoning — has just been moved up, according to a top scientist at HP Inc. The progress in AI and machine learning has been so rapid that scientists have upped the estimate for the ‘singularity’ to happen in 2029 from 2040, shaving off 11 years of development time, says Shane Wall, Chief Technology Officer at HP, who also heads the HP Labs which is at the centre of innovation within the company.”

My simple worry is when Robots will become more intelligent than human beings that will be the starting point of deterioration of human supremacy on this planet Earth. It may further lead to annihilation of human race itself like what happened to Dynosaurs, whose dominated in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and ended when the Cretaceous–Paleogene event led to the extinction of most dinosaur groups 66 million years ago. 

Though today the extinction of human race seems to be a very-very remote possibility, let us not forget that we are digging our own graves by our excesses against the laws of nature. In our quest for the so-called progress, we have polluted air, water, soil and all the edible items. Origin-growth-decline-extinction are the inevitable stages in evolutionary process. Though a scary thought, the extinction of human race may be triggered by ROBOTS, our own creation. Apart from religious legends, the redeeming scientific feature is that in due course there will be a new evolutionary cycle, though it may take trillions of years and, obviously we or our immediate next generations will not be there to witness these spectacular happenings of extinction and origin! 

Hence it is for our present generation to decide whether we should go all out for AI (Artificial Intelligence) and in the process give up our natural intelligence!!