He might be right, though. Intelligence might arise as an emergent property of some complex system. For example, automated trading. There's no telling really.

He might be right, though. Intelligence might arise as an emergent property of some complex system. For example, automated trading. There's no telling really. It also depends on how you define intelligence. It doesn't necessarily have to be (explicitly simulated) human intelligence. (Mind that intelligence in humans wasn't created on demand either. It arose as an emergent property of the mammalian brain, due to evolutionary pressures)