In other words, we’re screwed.

In this modern world, there’s hardly anything that we do that doesn’t involve some sort of modern technology. Chatting? Cell phone. Entertainment? Computer. Defecating? Automatic toilet. Technology has taken over our lives and robots are here to take it to the next level.

Take Cleverbot: it’s a robot that has an actual, factual conversation with you by learning from humans who have spoken to it before and storing their responses in a database. When it speaks to you, it looks through its previous responses before giving you an answer. In other words, it gets smarter and smarter on its own, just like humans do.

Not creepy at all, right?

But wait, it gets worse. Watson, a robot designed by IBM, played against two adults, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, in a game of Jeopardy earlier this year in February — and won. Similarly to Cleverbot, Watson uses information from its database to answer questions in real life and time.

On top of using this system, it also takes a guess based on its confidence level, which it measures by calculating the probability of a right answer. It also uses its confidence level to determine the amount of money it should wager during double Jeopardy. Just like an average human would.

Wait guys, hold your gigahertzes! What’s that? There’s a robot coming to us in the near future that’s even more powerful than Watson and Cleverbot?

Wait, it can react emotionally?

It seems that AIDA, a robot currently being designed by MIT and Audi, is the next big robot designed to take over the world — right from your very own car dashboard.  It uses real-time information such as local events, car conditions, and commercial activity to suggest less congested roads, remind you to fill the gas tank, and teach you to drive in a way that’s safer and more environmentally friendly.

On top of all this, AIDA can read your emotions and effectively respond in a socially correct and informative way on its virtual face. The release date of the AIDA is still uncertain.

There’s no point to trying to boost your SAT score anymore. You might as well just start stocking up robot weapons to prepare for the future. Forget med school. I think we’re done for.

Or are we?

Think about it: while we can’t exactly live without any sort of modern technology in our lives (Angry Birds, anyone?), we can start off by slowly limiting our use of super high-tech technology like computers or smartphones to one to two hours a day. Maybe if we did this, we could at least delay the onslaught of robots for a couple more years.

On the bright side of this, your future kids probably won’t have to endure studying the SATs anymore. They’ll probably be too busy serving for the robot kings in the near future.