> In a way we are "device", so therefore, it is possible to make intelligence similar and/or more powerful than our is.

I mean, yes, I can have a child and raise her to be smarter than me, but I don't really think that's what you have in mind.

The strong AGI proponents always resort to hand-waving and dubious analogies. There's no reason to think that building ever-larger ML models will produce an intelligence capable of comprehension and insights like a human mind unless you believe the human brain is nothing more than a bunch of weighted vectors.