German computer scientist says artificial intelligence will surpass humans’ in 2050, enabling robots to have fun, fall in love – and colonize the galaxy.

‘By 2050, we will have AIs who are more intelligent than we are’ … Pepper, a humanoid robot. Photograph: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Jürgen Schmidhuber on the robot future: “they will pay as much attention to us as we do to ants”
the GUARDIAN 18 April 2017