Or, (b) the whole place had been constructed deliberately, for the express purpose of creating complexity and intelligence.

It seems like a paradox that in this day and age we can create life but not intelligence.

Over a thousand years ago Perez had been part of the team which created artificial intelligence, thus launching humanity along its path to paradise.

Kurzweil notes that computational capacity alone will not create artificial intelligence.

When I finally create human intelligence - or allow it to evolve - I can design a civilization.

"How can we hope to create artificial intelligence if we can't even say what intelligence is?"

From a biological basis, he explains that the brain uses nothing more than electricity and chemistry to create intelligence.

As the scientists point out, there are easier ways to create human intelligence - you just make more humans.

Some believe it's one reason why no one ever succeeded at the old dream of creating genuine artificial intelligence in a computer.

But now he'd got the ear of a god, and maybe some intelligence could be applied to the task of creating intelligence.