The trap of presumed equivalence: Artificial General Intelligence should not be assessed on the scale of human intelligence

A traditional approach to assessing emerging intelligence in the study of intelligent systems that we examine in this work is based on the similarity, “imitation” of human-like actions and behaviors, benchmarking the performance of intelligent systems on the scale of human cognitive skills. In this work we attempt to outline the shortcomings of this line of thought, which is based on an implicit presumption of equivalence or, at least, similarity and compatibility of the originating and emergent intelligences. We provide arguments to the point that under some natural assumptions, developing secondary intelligent systems will be able to form their own intents and objectives. Then, the difference in the rate of progress of natural and artificial systems that was noted on multiple occasions in the discourse on artificial intelligence can lead to the scenario of a progressive divergence of the intelligences, in their cognitive abilities, functions and resources, values, ethical frameworks, worldviews, intents and existential objectives, the scenario of the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) evolutionary gap. We discuss evolutionary processes that can guide the development of emergent intelligent systems toward general intelligence and attempt to identify the possible starting point of the progressive divergence scenario.