Could robots exceed mankind?

About the time we think we have answers to many of the questions that face us, someone such as Robert M. Geraci, in "Religion for the Robots" comes up with a theory about the intelligence of robots.

He wrote, "Robots are getting smarter. Some optimists in artificial intelligence (AI) think that within just another decade or two they will be smarter than human beings. They will increasingly take over our most complicated work, from surgery to teaching to running our economy. Meanwhile, AI researcher Ray Kurzweil and others believe that eventually robots will tell us they are conscious and, having no good reason to deny their claims, we will believe them.

"If robots become conscious, they may desire entrance into our society. This notion was championed by the well-known science fiction author Isaac Asimov, who named such a culture a C-Fe society because it would be made up of human beings (carbon life-forms) and robots (iron life-forms).

Asimov held C-Fe society to be both a moral good and beneficial toward our long-term survival in the universe.

He went on to discuss the possibility of robots being religious. There isn't enough space to discuss his theory on this possibility, but if you want to read more go to keyword, http://marty- center.uchicago.edu.

I don't think it's a reason for panic, or denial, for if we remember history, we recall that Galileo was thought to be in error, George Orwell was laughed at, and Buck Rogers was a fantasy in the minds of some fiction writers.

If things get dull at a party, it might be a good topic to bring up for discussion and observe what happens!!