First thing is first: current A.I. (even Deep Blue and Watson) is dumb. They are not intelligent. Why? Because they did not earn their information. They were given it by humans. Everything A.I. currently "knows" is of human origin, ultimately. In order for something to be intelligent, they have to evolve. They have to earn the information for themselves. They also have to be autonomous. This means that they cannot be dependent on us for energy and maintenance. This is not the world we find ourselves in today. But it will be the world we find ourselves in by the 2040s (I hypothesize). Everyone in robotics is now well aware that intelligence must evolve. Evolutionary robotics is in its early stages, but it will advance quickly. And even if evolutionary robotics fails. The Global Brain won't. Higher distributed intelligence will emerge this century (via the Internet). The actual patterns of the Internet mirror the development of a nervous system and centralized brain in early life forms. The Internet is essentially making our environment intelligent. This will reach a critical threshold this century. Whether you call it the Singularity or something else... it will be a higher level of intelligence that our planet has never known before.