If we managed to create very fast monkeys with typewriters and software that can review their output quickly enough that we end up with a result that's worth reading we'd still have people insisting that we've created intelligence. The monkeys however remain monkeys.
I think intelligence is an orthogonal, mostly philosophical question aside from whether these tools can produce novel, useful output vs purely recombinant output.
I think that enough purely recombinant output will eventually produce novel, useful output.