AI will make us lazier and lazier. We'll all look the hover chair ridden fatties from WALL-E, eating and sitting ourselves to death.

Yes. AI will win.

Humans always think in extremes: AI will "take over" or will "replace humans" or "replace all jobs." Orrrrrrrr "AI will solve all problems."

The reality is, history shows us this is never true. Remember Y2K? The Tower of Babel? It's usually something like @tomhodgins said; a happy medium. It gets me how some people like Ray Kurzweil, Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and so many other non-computer scienists keep talking about how AI will "take over" and all this. First of all, AI is made by humans, thus it will always have human errors. How could something made by a human not? The answer is, it can't. It took me a day and 6 hours to successfully get a 6GB video transferred from my iPhone to my computer. Why? Because Apple has a silly bug where when the video file gets a certain size, the file format is changed and unviewable/readable by a PC and even a Mac with the version of iOS that I have. I talked to 5 tech support technicians, tried it on my PC, my girlfriend's Mac, my Linux box... I tried Dropbox's App which, for lack of a better term, was a big pile of trash (i got a refund, don't worry), etc... I ended up having to upgrade my iCloud just to get it to work.

The point is, we haven't even perfected a simple file transfer yet. We get way to big for our britches and unfortunately, it sometimes results in terrible software and/or (now) death. I don't care if you make a program that can write itself, it will still have bugs, and we're going to find out if those bugs will be liveable.

Finally, most experienced AI developers admit that we are no where near this "super intelligence" state that the media and "philsophers" keep acting like we are and that in fact it may never come. I trust those people, and my own CS intuition over media hype and CEOs who have no idea what they're talking about.

That said, of course technology will continue to advance and AI will augment our society.

I want to leave you with one thing: What do little boys often have a hard time understanding that us adults can (sometimes) wrap our head arounds??? They often ask "Which one's better?" Sometimes there is no better, sometimes there is no winner, just like a programming language, AI will be a tool used for a job.

Last but not least, check out this equation and tell me what you think:

(All humans believe they have right to have children) + (current state of economy) + (AI supposedly going to take all jobs) = X

What's X?

Tech companies don't like to believe it, but technology is not the sole dictator of how society operates... We're terrible with this. We love to think that our ideas and our implementations are always going to forever change society when that's not always true. Practical need and emotional fulfillment is generally what wins in the end. Why would we replace all jobs and put 300 million people out of work? Humans like the feeling of accomplishment too, just like so many enjoy driving cars as well.

Without humans, AI can't exists.

Humans.

Cause we got John Connor.

Replace many humans? Yes

Replace all humans? No

Do megaphones replace humans? Maybe to make a loud noise in the past you needed 100 people shouting, and with a megaphone only 1, but even though that 1 human is amplified by technology, a megaphone by itself isn't going to replace a group of humans without 1 human shouting into it.

I think AI will augment businesses to the point where what is currently an entire organization of humans may be able to run very much like software. Think of bureaucracy as pen-and-paper source code being interpreted by flesh-and-blood computers. If we can translate the processes of a business to a machine-readable language, and also create machines to interpret these instructions then I do believe 'humans-as-simple-instruction-interpreter' jobs will be replaced - however machines will never be designing, or running these organizations.

In the future I think many humans will 'manage' teams of AI's trained and tasked for different things. Business will still always require human creativity and intellect to be created and run, but the sheer numbers required to make it work will be replaced by software.

What does this mean?

Well for starters - we should all be thinking ahead and trying to learn how we could take our expertise and codify it in such a way that AI could help.

Also consider the difference between machines and humans - we have creativity and intuition, but are slow and performing routine operations without errors. Machines are fantastic at producing a lot of output but aren't creative. I think in the future we may see a lot more of AI producing 100, 1000, or 10,000 versions of a product that humans then quickly select the best one(s), instead of the more human process of trying to just find that 1 and work toward it.

If you needed a layout for a website it might be easier to programmatically build and test 2000 different variations than to sit down and design one yourself, and looking at a gallery of many variations a human can intuitively pick the best looking ones in a split second.

I see humans and AI working together in the future, like working with a living computer. It's going to be great!

i think ultimately, humans will prevail (at least i hope so!) due to the fact that there are just some situations out there that require you to think on your feet when circumstances change (for example, a surgeon - they need to be able to switch gears on the spot if something unexpected happens during a surgical procedure).

Machine can be productive. But never become Creative. That's quality of human will always above from AI.

I think the answer to this question is yes for jobs that can be automated. If something can be automated, human beings shouldn't be doing it. CI/CD products are quickly replacing the jobs of DevOps engineers. We do not have a dedicated DevOps engineer at Hashnode for instance.

Rainforest QA, I believe at some level aims to get rid of manual testing. Let's assume everyone uses Rainforest QA in the world, thousands of manual testers will lose their jobs.