Robotics expert: Artificial intelligence will 'creep' into people's everyday lives

Paulhamus, a branch supervisor at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory said, told Hill.TV that AI is "very, very far away" from approximating human intelligence, adding that the public should not fear a robot takeover in the near future. "It's not overnight -- it's slowly having this technology creep in to your life," he told Hill.TV's "Rising" in an interview that aired Friday. Paulhamus said he expects the rise of such technology to continue to evolve with in-home products such as Amazon's virtual assistant, Alexa, and to develop as society moves toward "more internet of things." "[People will] start to need a mobile robot to follow you around and it'll slowly start to integrate," he added. But, Paulhamus said, the robotics industry faces a number of limitations when it comes to AI.