Of course. But they're going to be machines. I don't think there's magic that makes the human brain impossible to automate. And engineering is going to lead to faster improvements than evolution could.
What makes you think that there are economic incentives to build an AI that has the same capabilities as the human brain?
The current scaling story is to intentionally take a system that objectively doesn't and sell it as if it does.
I'm not cocky enough to bet against it. Especially since now AI is solving frontier math problems, debugging better than humans, and writing most of the content posted to Hacker News.