I find it interesting that bots are generally regarded as acceptable in blockchain culture. I think I like it, because I've always been intrigued by AI. It was the childhood passion that drove me to choose computer science as my path as a young adult.

When we consider that code can run in a blockchain decoupled from any one server or central authority, and we consider the potential for emergent complexity from many competing blockchains, I think we have the foundation for genuine artificial intelligence.

In fact, I wouldn't even call it artificial. It is the potential for actual intelligence to emerge without being specifically directed by humans... with blockchains adapting for use in social media, in gaming, in finance, in education, and everywhere, the net interaction of many increasingly sophisticated bots may well represent the sort of complexity that generalized intelligence can emerge from.

I don't think generalized intelligence is something we will explicitly create, but something that will evolve within the increasingly complex and well-ordered environments we create.