Well, I think we'll merge humans and robots before having advanced AI robots.

Basically cyborgs will be the ultimate creation, and since we'll have a human brain with empathy (hopefully) then we will be able to prevent any uprising before it happens.

Just look at all the advanced stuff that DARPA is funding and succeeding in creating. In the next 20 years there is going to be some insanely awesome technology coming out.

I don't like the idea of creating 2 classes of humans though, (those with BCIs/other advanced technology embedded in them and those without) that just seems like it's going to cause a problem.

It would be really nice to have an alien civilization come down and tell us the potential mistakes to try to avoid when maturing. Technology is so close to increasing at an exponential rate that something is almost certainly going to wipe us all off the planet. We'll be very lucky if we don't end up killing ourselves in the next 50 - 100 years, in my opinion of course.

"Well, I think we'll merge humans and robots before having advanced AI robots."

That seems like extremely wishful thinking to me.

Anecdotally, it looks like progress in making machines do human like things is progressing much more quickly than reverse engineering the human brain.

He doesn't mean human-like robots (with a human-like brain). He means a human brain with partly machine body.

Even that's real damn hard, though, and I'm not optimistic.

I thought good progress was already being made with this, with devices like cochlear implants, retinal implants, and cyborg monkey arms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxIgdOlT2cY

Yep, lots of teams working on BCIs.

The rapid learning by introducing an electric current at a specific certain parts of the brain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_direct-current_sti...

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/427177/diy-kit-overcloc...

BCIs are getting more and more attention. Imagine being able to hook up a processor, external storage, or even directly connecting to the internet using a BCI. Even connecting two brain is possible (and has been done). Some people say that one day we'll all be one connected organism, when we die just throw the brains in a big tank and let them live forever, like Futurama.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/527561/military-funds-b...

http://www.army-technology.com/features/featurebrain-compute...

It seems very accurate to me, when we consider how many non-permanently attached machines we already use. A smart phone, the Internet, search engines, prosthetic limbs, and cars would certainly allow for a powerful cyborg. Is the only major distinction that these are not permanently attached? Or does a cyborg also require neural interfaces?

A lot of good human empathy has done the human race... I think i'd rather trust robot empathy.

Don't worry, the legs just weren't broken enough.