You can believe whatever you want, but I don't think it's arrogant to say what I did. You are basing your view of humanity on what you think humanity has done, and basing your view on AI based on what you think it will do. Those are fundamentally different and not comparable. If you want to talk about the science fiction future of AI, we should talk about the science fiction future of humanity as well. Let's talk about augmenting ourselves, extending lifespans, and all of the good things that people think we'll do in the coming centuries. If you want to look at humans and say that we haven't evolved at all in the last 3000 years, then we should look at computers the same way. Computers haven't "evolved" at all. They still do the same thing they always have. They do a lot more of it, but they don't do anything "new". We have found ways to increase the processing power, and the storage capacity, but a computer today has the same limits that the one that sent us to the moon had. It's a computer, and incapable of original thought. You seem to believe that just because we throw more ram and processors at it that somehow that will change things, but it doesn't. It just means we can do the same things, but faster. Eventually we'll run out of things to process and data to store, but that won't bring AI any closer to reality. We are climbing the mountain, but you speak like we have already crested. We've barely left base camp in the grand scheme of artificial intelligence.