Is Elon Musk right to predict that artificial intelligence will overtake humans within five years? For the last few years we have been saying that by 2025 we will pass someone in the corridor and not know if they are human or android. That's not to say that we're going to find ourselves in a "terminator" situation of artificial intelligence taking over the world, but machines will be the faithful assistants taking care of all ordinary chores. Man will be liberated from subsistence to creative expression, where humans will continue to reign supreme. This diffusion of carbon and silicon forms will be inevitable but a bit weird initially, as Musk points out. But as humans settle to this new normal, the new hybrid workforce will make for an exponentially more efficient planet.

The vision of robots taking over the world might sound like something out of a dystopian science fiction novel. But robots will outnumber humans by 2048, an expert has predicted today. According to'leading futurologist' Dr Ian Pearson, earth's robot population will grow from around 57 million to 9.4billion over the next 30 years. Dr Pearson, a British novelist, engineer and inventor, said robots could also become'emotionally intelligent' by 2028. He said his predictions are based on the'modest' assumption that the number of robots will grow by a fifth each year.

In a little over two years, a fleet of driverless cars will make its way from Oxford to London, completing the entire journey from start to finish without human intervention, including on urban streets and motorways. Organisers of the government-backed project, announced on Monday, still expect to have a human in the driving seat. But as the cars communicate, update on hazards, and automatically react, is the time coming when a human driver is not just redundant but an active danger? A driverless transport trial started this month in Greenwich, south-east London, with members of the public invited to climb aboard Harry – a version of the pod vehicles used at Heathrow's Terminal 5, souped-up with lasers, sensors and £20,000 worth of autonomous technology. Harry was doing a careful 15mph beside the Thames when an oncoming jogger swerved right in front of us, forcing the vehicle to a sudden halt.

The idea of superintelligent machines may sound like the plot of "The Terminator" or "The Matrix," but many experts say the idea isn't far-fetched. Some even think the singularity -- the point at which artificial intelligence can match, and then overtake, human smarts -- might happen in just 16 years. But nearly every computer scientist will have a different prediction for when and how the singularity will happen. Some believe in a utopian future, in which humans can transcend their physical limitations with the aid of machines. But others think humans will eventually relinquish most of their abilities and gradually become absorbed into artificial intelligence (AI)-based organisms, much like the energy making machinery in our own cells.

Although computers are getting smarter and intelligent due to the advancement of artificial intelligence but these man-made machines will not overtake the humans in coming few years, says IBM Research Director Arvind Krishna. Krishna is also the Senior Vice-President of IBM and heads the arm that developed award-winning cognitive computing system named Watson that is currently being used in several complex tasks including treatment of cancer. Krishna said that a machine does what it is taught by humans and it just follows the given instructions. A machine cannot overtake humans until it starts doing things on its own and that day will not come at least in'our living lifetimes'. Greatest living Physicist Stephen Hawking and Engineer-entrepreneur Elon Musk have claimed the artificial intelligence as a demon that will bite us back someday in future.