Computing genius John von Neumann foresaw the inevitable in the 1950s. "The accelerating progress of technology...give the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the...race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue."
Most assume the 'singularity' is the day an artificial intelligence matches and exceeds the highest IQ ever recorded for a human being - about 200.
How about a 30,000 IQ in 30 years? An intelligence so god-like that such a being will see humans as we see cockroaches?
Such machines will no doubt squash humans in the same way and for the same reasons.
