When you can take the human out of the loop, that is becoming very exciting.

Or not so exciting at all, depending on your perspective.

Personally, I highly doubt that cyborgs will win over completely non-biological AI. There's nothing biological that is advantageous for space exploration.

I do agree that biological intelligence is probably transient. However, that's not why I think it is quiet out there. I think we are just listening on the wrong channels because we haven't yet discovered the right ones.