The fantasy of a machine that makes itself smarter to infinity and beyond, is a kind of perpetual motion chimera IMO.
We have a lot of work to do to understand the human mind, and the minds of other thinking creatures. We can only *then* apply those lessons to design new minds.
We don't get to just magically skip The Work.
Why not start with ants? They are smarter than they have any right to be.
Tell me how the mind of the smallest ant works: I will believe in your thinking machines. 6/6