Is Our Universe Ruled by Artificial Intelligence?

Hans Moravec, a highly respected AI pioneer and robotic expert at Carnegie-Mellon, predicted "What awaits is not oblivion but rather a future which, from our present vantage point, is best described by the words 'postbiological' or even 'supernatural'. It is a world in which the human race has been swept away by the tide of cultural change, usurped by its own artificial progeny." Our machines, Moravec predicted, will eventually transcend us, and be "released from the plodding pace of biological evolution."