I view intelligence as the capacity to use resources, including the intellect, wisely and creatively. The current system we're building have no self-awareness and no will, so they cannot really be intelligent.
If we want to build intelligent machines, we have to understand the architectures of the mind. We use memory as a sort of mental matter for the formulation of thoughts that we structure in a certain way to formulate ideas/concepts and then we go out and build things. We are builders because we are thinkers and we are conscious about being able to think.
But what is a thought, really? What is consciousness?
Look at the size of our brain next to the huge computers and data centers we're building for "AI". Our brain is small, yet was able to think about how to build these systems.
We believe we're going to develop "artificial intelligence" by building massive computers and data centers. How absurd is that?
Folks, to build intelligent machines, we have to build thinking machines and for this, we'll have to truly understand how the mind works and when we do this, I believe we'll be quite surprised.