We have to synthetically evolve or we're doomed.

Max Tegmark is a Swedish American physicist cosmologist and machine learning researcher at MIT. He thinks that AI will redefine what it means to be human due to the scale of the changes it will bring about. During the past 13.8 billion years our universe has transformed from dead and boring to complex and interesting and it has the opportunity to get dramatically more interesting in the future if we don't screw up. About four billion years ago life first appeared here on earth but it was pretty dumb stuff like bacteria that couldn't really learn anything in their lifetime. Max calls them Life 1.0.