"all intelligences are basically goal seeking machines no?" No, not really. They can just exist along you, think Da vinci or Einstein. They don't really tried

"all intelligences are basically goal seeking machines no?" No, not really. They can just exist along you, think Da vinci or Einstein. They don't really tried to change their worlds, even having that capability. So humans could be just living along "a giant", or several of them, at any historical moment, even right now. And not really be aware of them at all. Artificial or not.