Self-Awareness in Robots

Well, thanks for insulting me in one of my only posts in months. However, I was speaking of the doomsday plot, as quoted. Considering the scenario consists of the end of human life, if not all life, and machines being the end, would machines want to create or have the imagination to create something higher than themselves?

I didn't read any posts, but isn't this really old news?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY__e391IRY

Considering the scenario consists of the end of human life, if not all life, and machines being the end, would machines want to create or have the imagination to create something higher than themselves?

Well look at it this way. Consider that currently machines and/or computer are only a tiny fraction of mental capacity that the average human brain has. Let's say it exponentially multiplies and surpasses the human capabilities wouldn't it have eventually gone through similar processes and imaginative steps that took us thousands of years to create? It's a complex idea, but it honestly makes very logical sense.

Define what you consider to be a fraction of human capacity. Like, storage, computational speed? Problem solving?

And, of course it makes logical sense. But also, if life is weak and can be destroyed, why machines, say, invent artificial life that can also be destroyed?

I honestly think that, should the machine apocalypse be our end, I think it would result in a giant singularity that covers the face of the earth.