Case 1: Not sure what country you live in, but intelligence isn't the deciding criteria for selecting leaders in ANY of the few countries I have lived in. Case

Case 1: Not sure what country you live in, but intelligence isn't the deciding criteria for selecting leaders in ANY of the few countries I have lived in. Case 2: Though it's very true that all of the companies you have mentioned are working on AI systems, none of those systems need to be as intelligent as a human to be very good at the job they are intended for. Take Google Car for instance. Will Google some day soon have a car that will be possibly even safer at driving a car than a highly skilled human driver? YES! Does the AI in the car need to be even 1/2 as intelligent as my dog to do that task? No. Specialized AI is the future, general purpose AI is simply not necessary, and also, not really achievable any time soon. > Yes, quite a bit actually. I certainly don't know anyone who wishes they were less intelligent. Again, it's the motivations you have to pay attention to. Why do people want to be smarter? So they can have a better startup? So they can invent X, code X, build X? So, they don't want intelligence for intelligence sake, they want a tool. They don't want intelligence for it's own sake. Some people are smart, and as a result, very proud of the fact that they are smart. However, would they be as proud of their intelligence if they knew that at least part of it is augmented by an IBM chip. Again, there is no motivation to develop intelligence for intelligence sake. There are motivations to develop information syntheses "AI", but that would hardly supplant humans any time soon.