And yet can I find a clock that ticks ?
Can I fuck ?
Unless and until Google and their ilk deliver the ability to understand what I mean when I search for a "ticking clock", and not return pages of clocks being marketed proudly as "non ticking" then I think we are pretty safe from the rise of the machines.
(When I was given a tour of IBM Hursley and broke a Watson demo with some questions, I was told that understanding language isn't really an AI problem ...)