It may well possess a more than rudimentary intelligence.
It was very quickly obvious that the swarm had rudimentary intelligence.
This one was a former police officer who did have some rudimentary intelligence; at least he knew how to follow simple orders.
Ore had piled high before the system's rudimentary intelligence shut it down.
The machine had a rudimentary intelligence and the ability to survive on its own.
"And I was just about to suggest that this behavior demonstrates a form of rudimentary intelligence."
This vortex was so powerful that it even possessed a rudimentary intelligence.
Only that last group could be considered as possessing rudimentary intelligence.
By this definition, even a thermostat has a rudimentary intelligence and consciousness.
But apparently the cheerleader was satisfied to give it a knowledge of English and a rudimentary intelligence.