10 Signs That We're Headed For The Robot Uprising

9. ...And Theyre Out-Performing Us

As well as tricking a panel of experts into thinking they were talking to a human, computers are also excelling in other fields.

Self-driving cars are now considered to be safer than those with human drivers and generally have a better safety track record. Because autonomous cars don't drink or text or nod off at the wheel, some experts are predicting that the accident rate would be about 10% that of humans.

A supercomputer has also beaten humans at a game of Jeopardy, which would require a complex understanding of human speech, and an AI has defeated a master at the traditional Chinese game of Go - something that is considered a huge milestone in artificial intelligence.

The computers doing these tasks aren't pretending to be humans, they're doing them as computers and are found to be superior.

Now all they need to do is realise it.