There is too much wrong with this post to address all his points. It's just more noise in an already noisy space. To be clear, I didn't attack the author. I simply asserted that he is speaking from ignorance as evidenced by his statements.

But I did raise a major objection, which is simply that his post is obsolete. It might have been reasonable to say what he said in 2014/2015. It isn't as we enter 2017.

Other people in this thread have already rightly stated that corporations are not superhuman AIs. This is true. Strong AI will be one or more models that operate as a coherent whole and be composed of machines, not humans. Corporations are mostly wetware. That's why they're not "artificial".

He claims there is a lack of incentive. That is not true. There is a well-funded escalation of research among large organizations that is well known and reported on, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.