The claims just keep getting crazier (and more dangerous). This is an extraordinary claim. Where is the extraordinary evidence?
Its actually a really old claim about machines in general, some old poet or something back in the black and white times said about the animal kingdom and plant kingdom that they would witness the emergence of a new machines kingdom that will one day be as accepted as the other kingdoms of life.
But those weren't claims of fact, they were speculations of the future.