Artificial Intelligence, a threat or evolution for humanity?

The human brain consists of around 86 billion neurons. It beats the most sophisticated computer in perception, efficiency and speed using as little energy as a small 20-watt light bulb. Human or biological evolution is very slow compared to rapid progress of technology development which advances exponentially.

Nowadays with the implementation of Artificial Intelligence the things are changing rapidly.
The goal of AI is to make a computer that’s as smart as a human. But is that possible?
It seems yes.

Computers are beating us at our own games lately. Googles Alpha Go, an algorithm that played the ancient game of Go like a Boss was good enough to beat a Go master and playing Go like a pro.

But machine that does one specific thing at a human level can’t really be called intelligent.
To meet that standard a machine would have to do many things at our level. So, the human standard for intelligence is to be like a human, which sounds egotistical, but it’s really not.

The human mind is formidable because we can learn about so many completely unrelated things, and we can do it even if we are not explicitly taught. One person can play Go and recognizing faces and having an open-ended conversation.
One computer is not capable of that.

That’s where machine learning comes in, which means that computers can teach themselves. Given enough data, modern algorithms can start to write their own code, refining it over and over.

Consider Image recognition as an example. The most basic facial recognition code an algorithm writes, might look for simple things, the next level adds the ability to combine those edges into shapes like circles and rectangles, go a layer deeper and it can start to distinguish eyes and noses.

These algorithms need to look at thousands to millions of examples of faces, but eventually their codes will be so good at looking for facial features that they will be able to tell when two pictures are from the same person, even if the lighting has changed and the angles is different.

It's why Facebook knows yours friends are in a picture before you even tag them! It’s because they have a virtual book of faces.
Before AI enslaves humanity, it’s going to have all sorts of uses.

There are diverse applications of AI such as Self-driving cars, speech recognition, in the medicine etc.
On the other side, there are a lot of Scientists seeing the AI as a threat for humanity and things that with AI we are summoning the demon.

Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX done a ton of stuff with artificial intelligence and advanced computers and all that fancy stuff, and he is warning us that we should be very careful about AI.
Stephen Hawking, one of the big minds alive, said that AI could spell the end of human race.

I think that the sci-fi and tech movies we see today will become reality in a long run.

Personally, I am asking myself, can we fool the AI in the future when it will be smart as we are?

What if humanity and AI merge together?

What you think, will AI change the world we know today?