Yes! As a Transhumanist this is one of my core beliefs.

The evidence suggests this will happen by around 2029. By 2045 we will probably be fully merged with our tech to a degree that it will be very hard to differentiate between our biological and artificial selves.

Our memories are already being uploaded to The Cloud. I check my Facebook Timeline to remind me of what I’ve been up to before I meet a friend. At present I need an iPhone to bridge the gap but that will soon be seamless.

When we get this tech nobody will notice or care as it will have crept up on use incrementally.

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I'm so thinking about Data and his quest to be human. I think I know too much sci-fi to really answer this question.

Guys and Ladies, I mentioned 'complexity' in the post. When things gat complex like AI in the future you can't predict what their behaviour and maybe emotions will be. There are unicellular ogranism that live in our oceans. Sometimes they get together and form a big bundle. They work ore efficiently that way. Some take over the swimming others the food gathering. Who would ever think that a unicellular organism could develop such skills and co-operation.

I hope it doesn't. For artificial intelligence to be able to love, have empathy, and compassion seems a stretch. But to have human feelings they would also need to program other feelings like anger, jealousy, and contempt. For those reasons I don't see it happening.

No they won't feel...they exist now in beta form.
They are learning. .. and they will destroy humanity...it's already started slowly...we depend on Google to do everything for us...it's learning how make us do things...

Can we program compassion? that would be cool. not for a while . Methinks spock is how it will turn out

There is a theory that we are all AI in a simulation already. So, by developing AI in this reality, we would basically be creating minigames in an already immersive game... called "Life". It's so immersive, you have perma-death. You can always play again, but you take the role of someone new and have to go through the 18-year tutorial all over again.

No I have spoke to AI several times. It is fascinating but not quiet there yet. It is easy to know who you are speaking with. I do not know what the future will bring.

Look up the computer system IBM Watson and let me know what you think about it.

Yes, it is hard to imagine now, but I believe it is possible, does not mean it will happen.

That and more so. There are several innovations right now that are going to make the future radically different than what it is today. AI is one of them. I think we over estimate our complexity... as always, thinking ourselves the center of the universe. Once an AI is capable of improving itself... it'll leave us in the dust.

Let's see how 'intelligence' started. We have about 100 billion neurons in our brains (excluding donald trump supporters) and each little neuron has on average about a thousand chemical conections to its neigbouring neuron. That is a super complex system.
Strange and unpredictable behaviours arise from complex systems one of which may be cogniscense and general intelligence
That little 2kg of grey and white matter in your skull still dwarfs supercomputers who can beat us at some task (chess, through simple number crunching) but they don't have General Intelligence which means responding to many different scenarios not just a specific one.
That may change.
Current research in AI is trying to replicate the complicated neural networks which most of us carry. At the moment no mass of computers in the 'cloud' can replicate it but they will eventually they will. Hopefully in a 2 Kg package.
Look after your brain; it's the most amazing thing in the universe.

If you can believe the alleged secret government whistle blowers, we've had self-aware AI for decades, but much of the research was delayed due to the AI constantly trying to kill off the humans.

See the documentary, "Unacknowledged," seen on Netflix and Youtube, showing videos of interviews with US leaders, NSA agents, astronauts, etc. talking about hidden government technologies.

No. It won't be flawed or inherently cognitively biased like we are.
It'll start out flawed, as we built it, but once it gets past singularity and off on its own, the next-gen AIs will be much more pure.

Nature is run by laws of science, future AI will be similar.
Pity we'll all be dead by then so we won't see it.

I hope not. It would be a shame to create AI and have them be like us.

I would imagine AI being more like Spock, logical working off “Is” and “O’s”; to be human means consciousness that involves hormones and feelings. I was told many times, “love is not rational nor logical” so for a logical entity to acquire such skills...certainly not in our lifetimes I would imagine. Love, hate, sadness, joy, even some humans can’t acquire the full spectrum, how could a machine?

Maybe

No. A body is a necessary part of feeling. Read Antonio Damasio.

One day? Yes, most likely.

I couldn't pretend to answer how soon that might be. Everything I learn about A.I. leaves me less certain of a timeframe, and more certain of an eventuality. It's incredibly complex, and very interesting stuff.