Not sure if the current discussion is still about the original topic, but, no, “artificial” intelligence is not intelligent. For one, if it was, it would not be called artificial intelligence, it would just be called intelligence.
Plus, artificial intelligence is really just if-then-else, but written in a different manner; in the end it comes down to the exact same thing. Traditional computer programs are equivalent to artificial intelligence in terms of what they can achieve, you can write any AI as if-then-else, and it would behave identically.
If-then-else is obviously not intelligence. It’s just parroting. I can give a complete retard a complicated list of instructions to follow, and assuming he makes no mistakes (let’s say for the sake of argument that he does not), he would “appear” to be intelligent in some contexts but he has no idea what the fuck he’s doing and if you take away the fixed program, he remains the same retard as before.
This is exactly what computers and artificial intelligence do. True intelligence requires more than if-then-else and in fact requires something that is undescribable and unquantifiable (as yet, at least).
An analogy would be like the difference between the set of natural numbers and the set of real numbers. Each real number contains vastly more information than any natural number; compare, e.g. a human thought to a dead, bare step in an algorithm, and you have the same thing. We can’t even agree on the definition of words, and that’s because each idea we have is infinitely complicated/detailed and impossible to actually put down to paper.