hyderabad fears that soon bots and computers will outsmart human beings and take control of planet earth are unfounded as the world is still decades away from having computers think the way a human being does former apple inc ceo john sculley said here on saturdayexpressing skepticism about the world hitting technological singularity by 2045 when ai surpasses humans as the smartest life form on earth he said a majority of the artificial intelligence ai today is still at pattern matching and predictive analyticscomputers are getting faster and we will see absolutely incredible advancements new type of companies and new ways of reimagining industries due to ai and machine learning ml but we have barely scratched the surface of artificial general intelligence agiif i was a young person i would be absolutely working in ai ml but i would try to be practical about it and realise that the constructs exciting so many of us today are the same constructs i was working on when i was a graduate student a long time ago he saidpointing out that though increasing automation will take away many jobs we take for granted today he said ai ml will become tools to help people amplify their skills and adapt to new kinds of jobs that would not have been possible earlier said sculley who was in town for the unveiling of coworking space qhub spread over 50000 sq ft the former pepsi and apple top honcho was also all praise for indian talent for their skills in it and healthcare and the ability to assimilate with local culture i suspect over the rest of the century indians will take on a bigger role not only in the us but the whole world as india is churning out engineers and doctors in large numbers today indians hold not just the most important jobs but also leadership jobs if you look at companies like microsoft adobe google there is no immigrant group that has assimilated better into the us than indians unlike the japanese or chinese he saidhe however expressed concern over the us new immigration policies and said they were stifling innovation us capitalism is built on innovation which comes from getting talent to come to the us as our education system is extremely uncompetitive in maths and science it really concerns a lot of us that the immigration doors have been closed down he pointed out that in the hitech sector a lot of big companies were opening up large development centres in canada because it has an immigration system based on skills and merit its really frustrating that students come to the us as we have excellent universities but graduates cant stay back so we are losing all that talent because of the most ridiculous policy