By Caroline Delbert at Popular Science    Image By TAMPATRA/Getty Images

In a new study, researchers from Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Human Development say they’ve shown that an artificial intelligence in the category known as “super-intelligent” would be impossible for humans to contain with competing software.

That ... doesn’t sound promising. But are we really all doomed to bow down to our sentient AI overlords?

Self-teaching AI already exists and can teach itself things programmers don’t “fully understand".

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By David Grimm at Science Magazine  Artist: Ettore Mazza

Sometime toward the end of the last ice age, a group of humans armed with stone-tipped spears stalked their prey in the bitter cold of northeastern Siberia, tracking bison and woolly mammoths across a vast, grassy landscape.

Beside them ran wolf-like creatures, more docile than their ancestors and remarkably willing to help their primate companions hunt down prey and drag it back to camp.

These were the world’s first dogs. Their descendants flowed both west and east, populating

Eurasia as well as accompanying the ancestors of Native Americans as they spread into the Americas...

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