Why We Are Not in "The Shallows".

From the New York Times Book Review -- ...he paired a machine and a human chess player in a collaboration. Like a centaur, the hybrid would have the strength of each of its components: the processing power of a large logic circuit and the intuition of a human brain’s wetware. The result: human-machine teams, even when they didn’t include the best grandmasters or most powerful computers, consistently beat teams composed solely of human grandmasters or superfast machines.

Thompson’s point is that “artificial intelligence” — defined as machines that can think on their own just like or better than humans — is not yet (and may never be) as powerful as “intelligence amplification,” the symbiotic smarts that occur when human cognition is augmented by a close interaction with computers. --

Exactly. Computers are not going to replace us. They will become another part of us. We are going to become something new, humans who are fully computer enabled.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/books/review/smarter-than-you-think-by-clive-thompson.html?nl=books&adxnnl=1&emc=edit_bk_20131101&adxnnlx=1383332510-XEKPgEnhhvJS5vGvO0o2/g