You might have heard of the technological singularity idea, a pompous reference to black hole's property of disallowing observation inside / beyond it.
The hype is misconstrued. There already are "minds" far more powerful then human's - computers.
The creation of an AI will bring nothing dramatically new to the world, merely allow evolution to take place in synthetic systems, not only biological. It will allow conscious minds in brains made from other elements beside neurons.
Then, regarding an "intelligence explosion" nothing terribly explosive can occur. It boils down to the question of how much faster would synthetic life's evolution proceed than biological life's. Put in different terms, how much faster is it possible to simulate the world than it actually proceeds? The answer is that the speed of a simulation is capped at normal speed and can only be increased by abstractions - reducing real distances, simplifying interactions and objects that interact. The only difference in a more sophisticated intelligence than human's would be it's capacity for abstraction - perform calculus in seconds, feel quantum physics intuitively and much more. But what good is it? Without experiment and verification the abstractions might as well be a load of crap - science fiction written by a divine imagination.
I don't see how experiments and verification of hypotheses could occur at a speed much different than now. But then, I lack imagination.
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