Seems about right ... but.

Although yours truly firmly believes that no one can predict the future due to the vagaries of quantum mechanics and chaos, one can make educated guesses and the guesstimate on when AI takes over all of our jobs as per ScienceAlert seems about right ... but.

And just in case you think you'll play it smart and develop the AI that is going to take over the world, the experts think there's a slim chance that machines will be the ones developing AI within half a century, and odds-on they'll be running the show in about 80 years.

The researchers set the 50 percent chance line for artificial intelligence being better at just about everything – a point they describe as High Level Machine Intelligence – in just under 50 years. At which point they think there's a likelihood that AI will be capable of doing just about any job you can imagine by 2140.

I'm betting it will take less than 80 regarding machines designing machines. When that happens, uncertainty becomes the watchword.

It gets better.

The experts are far from infallible. They predicted that AI would be better than humans at Go by about 2027. (This was in 2015, remember.) In fact, Google’s DeepMind subsidiary has already developed an artificial intelligence capable of beating the best humans. That took two years rather than 12. It’s easy to think that this gives the lie to these predictions.

I rest my case.

Click here to get the in depth paper on said topic.