I think there's ample evidence that humans have some incredible things, that most animals haven't

Yes, humans invented new ways to communicate with some obvious incredible results, but how much a single human is more intelligent than a single animal? Is this difference that big as we used to believe?

Yes it absolutely is.

Like inventing the artificial kind of intelligence!

I sometimes wonder whether we invented AI because we felt lonely in a universe where we - apparently by our own judgement - are the only intelligent beings.

/s

as the saying goes "there's an overlap between the smartest bear and dumbest tourist"