Louis Del Monte, a renowned physicist and the author of "The Artificial Intelligence Revolution" has said that within three decades the "top species will no longer be humans, but machines".

According to him, artificial intelligence will become more advanced in the future than the combined human intelligence of the world.

Del Monte says that the government has already allowed this trend to increase in an exponential manner as there is no legislation on how much intelligence can be programmed into machines.

Del Monte said that in future machines will integrate with humans and this will lead to the creation of cyborg meshes. Ultimately, the human intelligence will be overpowered by cyborgs by 2040 or maximum by 2045.

Machines have already become a major part of the lives of people as they replace their own limbs with the artificial ones. The physicist alleged that they would become cyborgs, part human and part machine and the technology may be a threat to the survival of humankind.

Del Monte was concerned that the future might come down to man versus machine when machines become more intelligent than humans. Machines like robots might view humans as dangerous and unpredictable.

"Today there's no legislation regarding how much intelligence a machine can have, how interconnected it can be", Del Monte tells Business Insider. "If that continues, look at the exponential trend. We will reach the singularity in the timeframe most experts predict. From that point on you're going to see that the top species will no longer be humans, but machines".

He said that by the end of the century, most of the human race will have become cyborgs and the allure will be immortality. Machines will make breakthroughs in medical technology. The human race will have more leisure time and we will think we have never had it better.

He added that the process of mixing of machines and humans will be slow but the effects are already being seen.