It only has to be stronger than us in the field of building AIs (which isn't an area evolution shaped us to excel in). Same as chess engines beat us as chess wh

It only has to be stronger than us in the field of building AIs (which isn't an area evolution shaped us to excel in). Same as chess engines beat us as chess while being dumb as doorknobs. Obviously chess heuristics is much simpler than building a high-level AI. But it's a matter of orders of magnitude - at the end of the day, it's still some sort of a narrow, technical task.