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According to the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, we have less than a year before Nanotechnology becomes strong enough to turn into grey goo and kill everything! (Never mind that it was last updated in 2011).

http://crnano.org/timeline.htm

At least we can all rest, safe in the knowledge that we will never again be foolish enough to blindly put our faith into techno snake-oil salesmen who promise us all sorts of absurd, sci-fi technology that never comes to pass and-oh, who am I kidding...

If not, someone offered me shrimp fried rice once, so you could probably ask those crustaceans to do it instead. 

That actually reminds me of a real life study they did, where it turns out pigeons are much better at identifying cancer-scans than humans are and could do so with 99% accuracy (humans have to study for years to become that good, whereas pigeons only need a few days at most). There was a huge news storm when some vastly overpriced "AI tool" could do the same thing, something that pigeons could easily do for free and got zero recognition for.

So in summary, I'd take "shrimp fried rice" over "nanobot boiled rice" any day.