A robotic system can steer a vehicle. Video cameras, sonar and laser range finders on the vehicle gather input. The system uses these combined inputs with experience gained from training to steer the vehicle. AI and robotics in an unmanned space vehicle aid exploration of an airless planet. Technological progress of the last few decades seems daunting.
Computers perform many tasks once thought impossible.
Likely around 2020 computers will be more intelligent than humans. This may change humanity and nature significantly. Let us assume we continue superiority. A computer can only function from a power source. We have superiority that enables us to switch the computer off if it does not perform.