Maxwell Is The Physicist's Physicist.

It [ai] Would Take Off On Its Own And Redesign Itself At An Ever Increasing Rate. Humans, Who Are Limited By Slow Biological Evolution, Couldn't Compete And Would Be Superseded.

I Think The Next [21st] Century Will Be The Century Of Complexity. We Have Already Discovered The Basic Laws That Govern Matter And Understand All The Normal Situations. We Don't Know How The Laws Fit Together, And What Happens Under Extreme Conditions. But I Expect We Will Find A Complete Unified Theory Sometime This Century. The Is No Limit To The Complexity That We Can Build Using Those Basic Laws.

It's Clearly Possible For A Something To Acquire Higher Intelligence Than Its Ancestors: We Evolved To Be Smarter Than Our Ape-like Ancestors, And Einstein Was Smarter Than His Parents.

What I Meant By 'we Would Know The Mind Of God' Is, We Would Know Everything That God Would Know, If There Were A God. Which There Isn't. I'm An Atheist.

We Are Only The Temporary Custodians Of The Particles Which We Are Made Of. They Will Go On To Lead A Future Existence In The Enormous Universe That Made Them