There are humans who are mentally disabled but have the ability to think in one or two ways which match the speed and ability of the computer. They are called savants. But whilst they can carry out some specific tasks brilliantly they do so at the expense of other general everyday tasks, doing them poorly, and requiring a lot of human support. So it is with the computer and artificial intelligence today.
In science fiction stories of the past, people have been afraid of the development of the android because it is so like a human but of a material that doesn't get damaged as easily, and thinks a lot faster than the human mind. The general outcomes of these stories is to consider the robot superior to the human so destroy it.
Humans need to survive, like any other animal on this Earth. We are part of the biological ecology of this planet, and as such need to remain within it.
Robotic machines may be more appropriate for sending into space, but they have only a limited use here on Earth - very limited.
Science has been trying to create a homonoid robot for decades, and they are slowly developing certain areas of human activity. The Japanese have developed human robots which can do quite a lot of movements and speech, but they still need humans to guide them.
In the meanwhile, humans are being "dumbed down" in what they can do, possibly to allow people to think the computer is a wonderful machine which is almost human. For years we were told that the computer could think faster than a human and accomplish many tasks better than a human. In other words, human beings were being overtaken, and considered obsolete. The rise in the use of computers in the workplace has added to this making it seem as if the computer is a faster thinker and worker than humans.
But the truth is stranger than that. Yes, a computer can calculate quickly, often far quicker than a human, but the standard of a human's mental calculation ability has been reduced by the use of calculating technology. When I left school in 1965 I was of a reasonable standard at mental arithmetic. I then used a comptometer in the workplace for two years (a comptometer is a calculating machine, the forerunner of the modern calculator) and found I had lost the ability to mentally calculate having started to rely on the machine to do it for me. To overcome this I had to relearn all over again how to do the simplest of mental arithmetic - it was as if I had never been to school!
I later saw how computers altered the whole concept of office administration. I knew that this technology would eventually take over but I did not appreciate at that time the full extent of the dumbing down of workplace procedures, or the emphasis being on humans assisting machines, rather than machines assisting humans as had been before. Believing that computer were the way businesses would progress I endeavoured to join the computer revolution and became a Computer Operator in 1968. I have used a computer in its various forms ever since. Mainframes, mini-computers, grafix computers, micro-computers which require operating systems to be loaded from floppy disks, PCs, and laptops. I've seen the whole system develop and I have used, and been abused, by these same machines as the workers do their best to adapt to these infernal machines which are worshipped from on high by the politicians and leading business executives!
Most of us have heard about the Japanese factories which were full of robots, and fully automated, kicking the human workers into the cold outside, but how many heard in later years of some factories hiring only human workers? This was because with the quick turnaround of products it was necessary to change the software, and hardware specifications. However these a took a long time, and made the whole process economically inviable! Humans on the other hand are more adaptable, and can change more quickly from task to task! But our influential people ignore this fact.
Since those days technology has taken over in every part of society. But do you honestly think it has been for the better? Tasks today take LONGER than they did in the past! Humans are being made to think, and accept, linear logic only, rather than develop the imaginative, innovative, three-dimensional thoughts we used to do. That is what humans are good at! We have taken a backward step, but keep believing we are moving forward. We are disabling ourselves, becoming lazier, but thinking we are improving our lot, becoming superior! What rot.
I have no doubt that technology will continue to "advance" creating homonoid machines that are closer to humans than ever before, but it will be at the obsolescence of human beings.