Our intelligence is a natural intelligence while machines is artificial since it was created by another intelligence and did not develop through biological and chemical processes. Surely you can see the difference.
Not quite, but that's not even my point.

Imagine we discover a small alien spacecraft, and decide that we want to do interstellar travel ourselves. However, instead of having it examined and reverse-engineered, we instead give some chimpanzees sheet metal and duct tape and hope they build us a fantastic FTL arcology for the entire human race.

And then we get scared because clearly Planet of the Apes.

WTF?