YoungBlue said:
Damocles, they're already demonstrating some breakthroughs if you read through the technology section of bbc news. I agree that we're years away from it, but there's no denial that it's going to happen at some point, regardless of the consequences.
The breakthrough which has made worldwide news is that they have gotten a robot to recognise itself. This is not intelligence. Intelligence is independent thought, we don't have the language electronically to make a computer have independent thought yet. Perhaps when quantum computing is more of a reality and we can have states of binary superposition then it will be possible. For now, all robots will just do what they are told to whatever complexity that the programmer has designed.
We don't even understand how we work, which is why we can't make computers work like us.