AI Expert Claims Artificial Intelligence Will Become 'Billions Of Times' Smarter Than Humans

According to an expert in Artificial Intelligence, machines will become billions of times smarter than humans, and mankind needs to fuse with machines in order to survive. Artificial intelligence could evolve to become "billions of times smarter" than humans according to Ian Pearson, a futurist at Futurizon who says people will need to merge with machines to survive. The fact is that AI can go further than humans, it could be billions of times smarter than humans at this point," said Pearson during a panel hosted by CNBC at the World Government Summit in Dubai. "So we really do need to make sure that we have some means of keeping up." Pearson continued, "The way to protect against that is to link that AI to your brain so you have the same IQ… as the computer.