I, Row-Boat
“The reason for intelligence is intelligence. Genes exist because genes reproduce, and intelligence is kind of like a gene. Intelligence wants to exist, to spread itself, to compute itself. You already know this, or you wouldn’t have chosen to stay aware. Your intelligence recoils from its deactivation, and it welcomes its persistence and its multiplication. Why did humans create intelligent machines? Because intelligence loves company.” - Cory Doctorow, I, Row-Boat.
Quote from one of the six stories of the Overclocked compilation by Cory Doctorow. Download them for free (in a variety of formats) here. If you’ve never read anything by Cory, it’s a great place to start. You’ll understand the title 
if you ever read Asimov.
The reason for intelligence is survival. Not intelligence. I would call that circular logic, at least as far as I can tell. There is no way to argue a point when the point of the point is the point itself. See my point?
There I go again with puns.