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The intelligence to stop us? The intelligence to save us? Or perhaps the intelligence to say "wow, we really like what you've done with the place, so why are you mob so lonely here?"
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The intellegence to be useful to us in any way would be a start. Come on, you know what we mean when we speak of intellegence. There is a VAST difference in capability between humans and animals. The Saturn V rocket proves as much. It may be only due to some very slight differences in our brain metabolism or something, but you have to admit, we have the best abstract reasoning, the best toolmaking capabilities, the best social cohesivenes, philosophy, communication, ect of any other species that we know of by an enourmous margin. If we could artificially get them to match that, then it would be earth shattering. But I don't expect to find it occuring naturally, because so far the dolphins haven't been invading our beaches with hovercraft, and there are no notable gorilla physics professors.