Hmmm, let us see. It took Mother Nature nearly 4 billion years to develop life on earth from a single cell organism to modern humans. It took Mother Nature tens of millions of years to develop mammals from tiny little critters trying to avoid dinosaurs into modern humans. It took Mother Nature about 200,000 years to develop the modern humans into what we are today. (She really needs to keep working on us though as we are full of flaws.) It took Mother Nature about 150,000 years to teach modern humans (homo sapiens) how to be farmers and herders. It took Mother nature about 194,000 years to teach modern humans how to write down their words in a written language. It took Mother Nature nearly 200,000 years to teach modern humans that big, bad thunderstorms are not pissed off evil spirits but are in fact a weather occurrence called a mesocyclone. Okay, so we modern humans call ourselves homo sapiens and take great pride in how far we have developed, especially over the past few hundred years. But we are really little more than homo dumba$$ses. Our history is literally written in our own blood, we carelessly destroy other species, the environment, and even ourselves. Can we develop autonomous AI as smart as we are? Maybe, if we survive long enough. Will we survive long enough? I doubt it. We are way past due Mother Nature pressing the RESET button on us before we destroy everything, including her. And even if Mother Nature doesn't hit the RESET button, the Universe might hit for her. From a realistic perspective, I just don't see modern humans surviving long enough into the future to accomplish great things like cure cancer and diabetes, much less invent autonomous AI that is as smart as we are, which really isn't as smart as we like to think.