We have developed computers to make things easier for us, and how the computer age has taken jobs away from thousands, because employees couldn't keep up with the speed of automation. We have developed computers that can vacuum your floors, without too much assistance from humans. We even have a computer that can take care of small children, and help with certain types of hospital patients, called the robot nurse. Now we have computers that can think for themselves, and even reason things out.
They are using The Terminator Movies, and the Battlestar Galactica Movies, as the end result, wondering if this will be the end of humanity as we know it. These movies depict what has happened after humans have developed computers to think and to solve problems for themselves. These events lead up to a physical takeover of all mankind because we were inferior to the robots.
researchers believe, could soon lead to a more "general" AI, as flexible and self-aware as human intelligence, or to direct computer enhancement of the human brain.
Such superhuman intelligence could then improve on its own design, acting at the speed of computers, millions of times faster than our own brains. Biological evolution would no longer be the main storyline on Earth.
Not all Singularitarians agree with this scenario, including Bill Joy, founder of Sun Microsystems.
In his seminal Wired magazine article, "Why the future doesn't need us," Joy said the GNR technologies -- genetics, nanotechnology and robotics, the ones with the potential to self-replicate and mutate --pose a danger to the world because their development is widespread and government oversight is practically absent.
The prospect of a hybrid man/computer elite controlling enslaved masses is just one nightmare scenario put forward by Joy. Another is that intelligent systems would likely evolve an instinct for self-preservation, which could be bad news if humans are viewed as a threat.
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