In the world of science fiction, robots given artificial intelligence often play a menacing role capable of killing human beings either on their own volition or at the behest of their programmers. Think movies like "2001: A Space Odyssey," "Blade Runner" or even "I, Robot," for instance. However, even with all of the recent advances leading to an increasing daily reliance on artificial intelligence, the prospect of technology running the show and outpacing humans may still be a long ways off, a Google executive said this week. "There is a lot that machine learning doesn't do that humans can do really, really well," Diane Greene, Google's senior vice president of cloud businesses operations, said Tuesday at the Code Enterprise conference in San Francisco. "Nobody expected some of the advances we are seeing as quickly as we're seeing them but, the singularity, I don't see it in my sentient lifetime."

In the world of science fiction, robots given artificial intelligence often play a menacing role capable of killing human beings either on their own volition or at the behest of their programmers. Think movies like "2001: A Space Odyssey," "Blade Runner" or even "I, Robot," for instance. However, even with all of the recent advances leading to an increasing daily reliance on artificial intelligence, the prospect of technology running the show and outpacing humans may still be a long ways off, a Google executive said this week. "There is a lot that machine learning doesn't do that humans can do really, really well," Diane Greene, Google's senior vice president of cloud businesses operations, said Tuesday at the Code Enterprise conference in San Francisco. "Nobody expected some of the advances we are seeing as quickly as we're seeing them but, the singularity, I don't see it in my sentient lifetime."