I think the problem is 'what is intelligence' it's all wrapped up with consciousness and our idea of it is based on how we think.
A Tesla self driving car can, in the right conditions be much safer than a human, but then it does stupid things where a human wouldn't. Is it more intelligent than a human? Less? Or just different?
Just following steps like a computer generally does, or the operator is in this example is not what i would define as intelligence. It's more akin to cargo culting than actual understanding. But then if you go the AI route, the computers make decisions we can't reason about. I think that has its own issues because it stops being a tool (something we ultimately control) to being something else.
I would say AI is intelligence though. Although I'm uneasy with that assessment, because I'm not sure if I'm reading to much in to a process I don't understand, that occasionally gets the answer wrong, or maybe fallibility is a hallmark of intelligence. A tool just does what it's told, it doesn't have the opportunity to make a mistake.
I suppose another useful distinction is the ability to learn. That computer program couldn't learn a new language based on knowing Chinese. The human operator could. A dictionary has this limitation, and you wouldn't describe that ask 'knowing' Chinese.