Machines are created by humans. They can compute faster than humans but never could be smarter because humans give the power to decide what machines can compute.
It is only my opinion but there are lot of articles related with this discussion.
I think why not ? especially there will be machine to machine concept ,i read some opinions for stephen hawking "warns artificial intelligence could end mankind"
prof hawking is not alone in fearing for the future.
In the short term, there are concerns that clever machines capable of undertaking tasks done by humans until now will swiftly destroy millions of jobs. especially in case multidisciplinary i know source knowledge was human but human his destiny is death also There is no human have all these multidisciplinary so in many case and for future machine may owning up to stage of knowledge more than human and may will be smarter.