Comment by usrbinbash

> Where did human intelligence come from?

From ~290-300 million years of mammal, and ~7 million years of hominid evolution, give or take. Which is a natural process and not something an intelligent creator started, is observing, powering or influencing in any way shape or form. Which makes the next statement...

> Self-improving AI brings itself about.

...a bit interesting, because, all the parameters in a comparison with natural systems are different: The system is designed by an intelligent creator, we are observing it, it's development is entirely powered by us, and we completely control it's development.

And so far, the sample size for self-improving AI, in the sense that would be required for the doomsday scenarios to happen, is zero.

> and no humans and no aliens are needed up front to design it.

Last time I checked, matrix multiplication wasn't one of the things observed in the Miller-Urey experiment.

> Who says we can't?

Since so far no one could demonstrate how to even measure the distance, in whatever unit, of AI systems to AGI, I'm not holding my breath.