Agree and disagree... AGI should be able to surpass human capability from the start, but I wouldn't call it an ASI. If humans are a 1 and an 'out-of-the-box' AGI is maybe less than 10, then what we consider an ASI might be 100 to 100000000 or more. Of course, it's all speculative, but I think we should keep the two categories separate. AGI should be for everyday use, in a variety of form factors that we can take with us. ASI is very likely to be something that leverages massive datasets to ponder deep thoughts and answer big questions, and that will likely take many servers.

Also, ASI will take time to educate. It may be able to record information extremely fast, but processing it, formatting it, organizing it, and refining it could take time, especially once it's juggling an extremely large amount of specific connections just to address one aspect of a problem that it's trying to solve. So training an ASI on everything we know may not happen right away.