The intelligent machine is an evil genie, escaped from its bottle. As for the sci-fi dramatization about robots taking over the world--not anytime soon ... robot motors use a lot of power, and can usually only last about 30 min to 2 hr before needing to be recharged! The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction. With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon. ELON MUSK, attributed, "Enthusiasts and Skeptics Debate Artificial Intelligence", Vanity Fair, Nov. 26, 2014 When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask you to accept in some corner of your brain that you might also be conceived of as a program.