Through both passive useful to humans - not “...would take off on
and active robots; auto- least the new AI system its own, and re-design
mated systems and that powers his ability itself at an ever increasentities that can aid; to communicate - the ing rate”.19
transform and perhaps danger will lie in tryeven redefine what it ing to create machines
is to be human, robot that are more intelli- It goes without saying that AIs can think
development is increasimmeasurably
ing into a cognitive
faster
than
unknown.
Is
a
human
the next step
being.
beyond
“the development of full
what we
artificial intelligence could
as
huspell an end to the human
m a n s
race”.
are even
-Stephen Hawking
capable
While
of underthe
ideas
standing?
presented to us
through films and
stories suggest that
In an interview with
the BBC in November gent than humans, and a self-aware system
of 2014, Professor ones that will evolve a could take years - or
even decades - to perStephen
Hawking lot quicker. He says:
ceive us as either a
warned that “the develthreat or obsolete, peropment of full artificial
intelligence could spell “Humans, who are lim- haps Hawking’s coman end to the human ited by slow biologi- ments imply that a fully
race”. While the pro- cal evolution, couldn’t intelligent system could
fessor explained that compete, and would be decide our fate within
numerous forms of AI superseded”, and that mere seconds of being
have already proved the intelligent system activated, extrapolat19