Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence?

   I believe that in our future we will have great advancements to technology, but we will never reach the point where technology will be smarter than us and be able to “take us over.” My reasoning behind this is that computers are only as smart as the users who created them. Sure, we can make computers use very advanced algorithms to look up answers to a problem, but they will never be capable of perceiving, having, or understanding emotions like humans can. With this being said, we can fully see that the so called “robots” will not be able to become power hungry and take us all over. 

   In 50 years, technology will be far more advanced than we think it will be. So far, we are working on technology with data analytics and RFID tags that will help us with shopping, living, and day to day tasks. For example, in the future, you can wake up walk into your shower have it already turned on to the perfect temperature, have the song that you usually listen to in the morning play and then be able to walk downstairs have your coffee pre-made along with your breakfast and have the news pulled up on your television. Then, you can take your daily walk to your local donut shop and have a notification sent to your phone saying that your daily order is ready.

   All of the things described in the earlier section are done with data analytics and RFID tags. They way this would work is, your shower and music player will see that you are away when you turn off your alarm, then it will see when you open your door and will turn everything on. After you shower and turn off your music, a signal will be sent to your toaster, tv, and coffee maker telling it to turn on and perform their tasks. Once your arrive relatively close to the donut shop, its RFID scanner will notice your IP, in reality it is a certain number pertaining to your specific RFID chip, and will tell the workers to start preparing this order and charge it on the credit card number that is saved in their database (which was given on the first visit).

   With all of this being said, we can see that AI is only capable of doing what it is programmed to do, so no, AI will never surpass humans and conquer us, they will just appear to be smarter due to their logic algorithms.