Super intelligent species explanation

They are so much smarter than us that they can see how dumb we are, and how by continuing doing what we're doing we will in the end pay them no harm. Would they be smart enough to realize the purpose of existence and adjust their behavior to achieve it perfectly? Or would they be smart enough to truly know that existence had no purpose and thus why bother. Most likely if there is another species out there, the idea of answers and purposes are so basic and small minded that super intelligent beings are just on a whole other level of reality. But if this were true, how would we recognize it when we see it? Maybe some random bug in your house is actually some aspect of a super intelligent entity. Impossible to know.