The theory is that AI, along with other technological advances, will progress at an exponentially faster rate until it is able to autonomously improve its own software and hardware and far exceed human intelligence and, in fact, will have greater consequences than human existence. Let's get one thing out of the way. Most people believe that humans are still smarter than AI, at least for now. Our biological survival functions and ability to reason have given us an enormous advantage over machines.
We can do things that AI can't do, such as understanding complex emotions and thinking abstractly. AI expands our brain and promotes the development of human intelligence. In the future, instead of being smarter than humans, AI will work even more aggressively to allow humans to be smarter than ever. It is predicted that by 2065, AI will even transfigure modifications to our genome.
Scientists would be editing human DNA in the same way that an editor corrects a flawed manuscript. With these alterations to the genome, weak genes in the human body would be replaced by strong and desired genes. Therefore, advances in AI will allow humans to free themselves from their biology and make them even smarter with the desired intelligent genes. Therefore, it wouldn't be bad to say that AI is our brain-assisting and promoting device, making us even smarter than ever.
Artificial intelligence could be billions of times smarter than humans and people may need to merge with computers to survive, a futurist told CNBC on Tuesday.
