Personaly I think you are wrong

I saw this video here, on the IEEE Spectrum blog. The bottom line is that soccer robots are evolving fast and soon will beat the crap out of human teams. Well, I don't doubt that will happen sooner or latter. After all, a lot of effort and money is going into making robots play soccer.

However, notice that in the fatal day that robots beat humans in soccer all that it proves is that you can built machines to beat humans at a particular task. No shit Sherlock ! We see that in our everyday lives.  Last year we saw a computer winning Jeopardy and a couple of years ago a computer won a game of chess. There is nothing extraordinary about this, although they are very impressive technical achievements. 

Personally I am convinced that it is impossible for machines to operate autonomously as living creatures having been doing for ages on this planet. And this places an upper bound on what machines, robots for instance, can accomplish no matter the amount of geeks involved in building them. I look forward to having robots beat me in soccer (not that hard given my growing beer belly) but I honestly doubt "we humans are doomed" as is implied by the author of the blog post.