My hypothesis is that we will soon see the emergence of a super-human artificial intelligence, not because of some astounding breakthroughs in our understanding intelligence, but because of irrefutable proof that humans just aren't all that complicated to surpass.

I think this is right.

Setting aside the creativity aspect (ie where do brand new ideas come from), which is a minuscule fraction of human thought, I suspect we are good pattern matching machines with the ability of extrapolation.

I think with sufficient data that computers can understand, this is eminently replicable.

Agreed, artificial intelligence doesn’t need to turn into Skynet to be “super human”, just better than the average 85-90 IQ human.

That's funny, someone must have given these ai bots an iq test by now. I wonder how it did

People used to say “AI wont surpass humans, we’ll meet them in the middle.”

Right. But that tech will be created by humans, somehow.

These misanthropist slogans run up to contradictions so easily.

I don't think it's so contradictory, we have a long history of stumbling into technological advancement. We have a tendency to get ahead of ourselves before we even understand what we're doing.