earthworm—three orders of magnitude--> small lizard—three orders of magnitude--> dog—three orders of magnitude--> human—thirty orders of magnitude--> weakly superhuman AGI—several thousand orders of magnitude--> strong AI
If a recursively self-improving process stopped just far enough above us to consider us pets and did so, I would seriously question whether it was genuinely recursive, or if it was just gains from debugging and streamlining human thought process. ie, I could see a self-modifying transhuman acting in the manner you describe. But not an artificial intelligence, not unless it was very carefully designed.
The scale is all out.
earthworm—three orders of magnitude--> small lizard—three orders of magnitude--> dog—three orders of magnitude--> human—thirty orders of magnitude--> weakly superhuman AGI—several thousand orders of magnitude--> strong AI
If a recursively self-improving process stopped just far enough above us to consider us pets and did so, I would seriously question whether it was genuinely recursive, or if it was just gains from debugging and streamlining human thought process. ie, I could see a self-modifying transhuman acting in the manner you describe. But not an artificial intelligence, not unless it was very carefully designed.