Machines thinking they are Gods.I find that laughable, since they are built.
Any machine capable of self-improvement would be, all but metaphysically, a God.
You think we'll ever hit that point?
Absolutely. Although, this thread isn't supposed to be a discussion about Godhood, but the potential power of artificial intelligence.
I get that computers can do things quicker than us, but I think that they will always be limited by the humans who made them.
Hence the term self-improvement. An aggregate of human minds will be able to create a machine superior to one human mind and far enough improvement will allow machines to rewrite themselves.
3. What's it going to do, kill them with dubstep unless they worship it?
Everybody seems to be missing out on the fact that an artificial intelligence capable of re-writing itself would be, by definition, capable of out-competing humans in almost every single way.