Artificial Superintelligence : An Intellect that Never Before Existed

The pace of progress in artificial intelligence is astonishingly fast and it is growing at a rampant pace. Tech firms such as DeepMind, etc as well as countless academic teams at leading technical universities all over the world, have been working for years on the creation of an AI with a neural network capable of all the mental functions humans posses. Unless one has direct exposure to groups like Deepmind, you have no idea how fast AI is growing. However, it is fascinating to see how AI is transforming lives right now in its early stages of narrow intelligence: from disease detection to artificial organs, autonomous driving to manufacturing. Evolution -- the process by which different kinds of living organism are believed to have developed from earlier forms and evolution has created intelligence -- the humans, but we are the most "exceptional" form of life in existence.