Artificial Intelligence: Master or Minion? -- By Peter Glaser on Goethe de

In 1997, British cyberneticist Kevin Warwick opened his book "March of the Machines" with a dark vision of the future. By the middle of the 21st century, Warwick predicted artificial intelligence (AI) network and superior robots would subjugate mankind, leaving humans to serve their machine masters solely as the chaos in the system. Will machines initially feel a sense of shame that they were the creations of human beings, like human being first reaction to learning of their ape ancestors? In the 1980s, American AI pioneer Edward Feigenbaum envisioned books communicating with one another in the libraries of tomorrow, autonomously propagating the knowledge they contained. "Maybe," his colleague Marvin Minsky commented, "they'll keep us as pets."