I don't think this follows at all, I think it could more easily be interpreted as a narrow AI problem than a general intelligence problem, where you respond to

I don't think this follows at all, I think it could more easily be interpreted as a narrow AI problem than a general intelligence problem, where you respond to signals and hire/ fire much the same way high frequency trading works. Those bots make complex decisions based on all the signals they can pipe in, but no one thinks that they can build themselves robotic bodies to go out and develop houses for sale if they detect real estate is going to go up :)