Huh?  He&#x27;s not arguing that &quot;AI is beyond the capabilities of mere humans&quot;.  (Where did you get that from?) He&#x27;s arguing that it&#x27;s a hard problem, that the presence of lots of brains can lead people to mistakenly conclude it&#x27;s easy, and that it will be easier with smarter humans.  His argument would have worked just as well concerning heavier-than-air-flight, meaning that just because we see birds everywhere doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s easy.<p>It&#x27;s conceivable that un-aided humans are too dumb to crack intelligence from the ground up (and therefore would have to brute-force the solution through simulation), but Hsu isn&#x27;t even arguing for that.