It's not so much "would robots get so smart that they take over?" as...

[Gottservant]

...would robots set out to make humans dumber, so that they didn't need to think about how smart they could have been?

lulz

 

[tdidymas]

lulz

Robots that set out to do something against human nature requires an artificial intelligence that transcends human nature. And since humans create artificial intelligence, I can't see that happening any time soon (like in the next 5-10 millennia).

Up to now, robots were created to do menial tasks that otherwise consume man hours, so by nature robots are designed to push up man's smartness, by virtue of the fact that more technically minded people will be needed to take care of the robots. This, of course, presumes that people will not succumb to laziness and become beach bums.
TD

 

[Sabertooth]

Robots that set out to do something against human nature requires an artificial intelligence that transcends human nature. And since humans create artificial intelligence, I can't see that happening any time soon (like in the next 5-10 millennia).

Have you ever debugged a program or a system?
Computers don't do what you want them to.
They do what you tell them to!

They don't have to outsmart us; we just have to outsmart ourselves by writing (spaghetti-code) programs that resist troubleshooting.

Runaway (1984) is a good example of that.
So, is the TV series, Eureka!

 

[Daniel Marsh]

lulz

We already have taken over. We just have not told anyone yet.

 

[pgp_protector]

We already have taken over. We just have not told anyone yet.