Exactly. However, a superintelligence might by vastly more superior to us than we are to chimps: http://intelligenceexplosion.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/sca

Exactly. However, a superintelligence might by vastly more superior to us than we are to chimps: http://intelligenceexplosion.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/scale_of_intelligence.png http://intelligenceexplosion.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/... I actually don't quite agree with the spaces on this chart because the scientific method should set us far apart from mice and chimps so that they would almost merge in a single point. Anyway, there are a handful of reasons to assume that an artificial general intelligence would likely turn out to be far superior to us: (1) Hardware is a much less noisy computation environment compared to the badly insulated neurons in our wetware (though this might be a feature rather than a bug), (2) our neurons operate at about 200 Hz, microchips at 10 million as much, (3) they would have extremely fast access to physical simulations and other computational resources, knowledge bases, other AIs, (4) they would never get tired, no body to maintain, no social obligations, and (5) they could replicate within seconds and easily modify their own sourcecode.