A physicist and expert on artificial intelligence says that by 2045, machines will be the dominant species on earth, not humans. Louis Del Monte, physicist, entrepreneur, and author of "The Artificial Intelligence Revolution." claims that with the coming "singularity" - the point where machines will be smarter than humans - the temptation to use the new technology to create virtually immortal humans may drive us to near extinction. Businessweek: Today there's no legislation regarding how much intelligence a machine can have, how interconnected it can be. If that continues, look at the exponential trend. We will reach the singularity in the timeframe most experts predict. From that point on you're going to see that the top species will no longer be humans, but machines." This is a boiling frog scenario, where we do little or nothing to prevent our own destruction. Is he justified in thinking that? "It won't be the...(Read Full Post)