I wonder, behind all this text posted on the internet that we assume being done by humans and robots, how many parrots are pecking on the keyboards happy to be taken as equals to us?
Intelligence out of context, manifested by it's interaction with a set of computers.
For all we know, there could be disembodied voices of beings stuck etched in subspace, computer viruses gone carefully sentient and exercising extreme curiosity about the world the net is embedded in that they can't even comprehend, historians from 3000AD inducing currents in our wires with their time machines and observing the archives change, and god knows who else, himself included.