Intelligence exists in human culture, not in individual humans. A high IQ has limited usefulness without a culture it can learn from and operate in. (Ask any octopus.)<p>Human culture persists outside of individuals, so the occasional genius can change culture <i>and culture stays changed</i> because collective memory is altered. This doesn&#x27;t happen with individual animal intelligence.<p>So I don&#x27;t think we&#x27;ll ever see a true AGI. What will happen instead is that collective cultural memory will improve, and connections between human brains will become faster and deeper - just as they have done for millennia.<p>If there&#x27;s ever a singularity it will be created by human brains operating together in a new and vastly accelerated shared state, not by silicon brains that have been programmed to appear sentient.