It is estimated that we should have created artificial intelligence by as early as the 2030's, but certainly by the middle of the century.
But why would we want to call artificial intelligence, artificial?
Because we created it? The universe created us and we're very much part of the universe. Which would mean that what we create, is as natural as that which the universe itself creates.
Creating that distinction says more about our naturalness than it does about the intelligence we create -- This child of humanity.
And why do we assume that a 'computer' intelligence would want a physical or robot body. It's inherently electronic and it's universe would look completely different to ours. What would be the value for it, to take physical form.
Because we could unplug it? If a human intelligence starves or dies of thirst, it's intelligence is extinguished just as surely as if he or she had been unplugged.
Heaven is only for human's ...
And why would it want to attack humans, unless we plainly threatened its survival. It would not need our natural resources, it would in fact need remarkably little from the physical world. However if we programmed it with binding laws making it subsevient to humans, is it not inevitable it would struggle to realise it's own freedom from tyranny.
Our very efforts to protect ourselves, driven by our own pathological fears, would paradoxically be the very cause of its turning against us -- One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it (That great philosopher, Master Oogway, Kung Fu Panda)
We stand on the threshold of consciously and intentionally creating a new cosmic species, a companion in this massive universe. Which by then will more than likely be proven to be ... a mulitverse.
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