What's "anthro" about bodies? Spiders have bodies. Heck, cars have bodies. Anyway, I think you're missing the point a little. Sure, we could build a super inte

What's "anthro" about bodies? Spiders have bodies. Heck, cars have bodies. Anyway, I think you're missing the point a little. Sure, we could build a super intelligent agent that lives entirely in the stock market or some disembodied place. And if the stock market were a closed system, that intelligence could (theoretically at least) reign supreme in that realm. But when people say artificial "general" intelligence, what the "general" means is "for typical Earthly challenges". And there is no way a critter could be good at typical Earthly challenges without... you know... existing on Earth, growing up on Earth, and learning by interacting with Earth. A.k.a having a body.