I have no problem with using the word intelligence to describe human-made systems, since the attribute artificial preserves the essential distinction. These sys

I have no problem with using the word intelligence to describe human-made systems, since the attribute artificial preserves the essential distinction. These systems inhabit the second-order world of human-created symbols and representations, they are not, and never will be, beings in the real world. Even when they inevitably will be enhanced to learn from their interactions and equipped with super-human sensors and robotic arms. What they won't have is the millions of years of evolution, of continuous striving for self-preservation and self-expansion which shaped the consciousness of living organisms. What they won't ever have is a will to be. Even if we program them to seek to persist and perpetuate themselves, it will not be their will, but the will of whoever programmed them thus.