I'd rather consider the question of whether artificial life is possible, because by addressing that I believe that I'll answer the question about artificial intelligence. Because you see, life, to me, has consciousness, and I feel that it's consciousness that is what's in the questioner's mind when they utter the word 'intelligence'.
We love creating division lines. Organic and inorganic, for example. People used to believe that there was some fundamental difference between the matter that made up living things and that from which the inorganic world was made. It is not. The elements that make up both are exactly the same.
So then, how on earth could life be artificial? If it is (and it is) then it is, in any shape or form. That should satisfy us.
As for the question of whether intelligence could ever arise in a complicated enough computer . . . But of course! It must, not 'could'. Wherever the housing for a living force opens up, then the life force will express itself there. That's a given. It can't be any other way. That is how it's always happened.
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