Do text compression tests qualify winRar or 7zip as intelligent? I read this paper Text Compression as a Test for Artificial Intelligence, Mahoney, 1999.
So far I understood the following:
Text Compression tests can be used as an alternative to Turing Tests for intelligence.
The Bits per character score obtained from compression of a standard benchmark corpus, can be used as a quantitative measure for intelligence
My questions:

Is my understanding of the topic correct?
Does this mean that applications like 7zip/WinRar are intelligent?
How are the ways a human compresses information (as in form of summary) and ways a computer compresses (using Huffman coding or something) are compatible? How can we compare that?
The paper suggests an alternative test to the famous Turing test, which tests a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.
In this test, if winRar or 7zip will compress a file similarly to how a human would compress a file (how does a human compress a file?!), then, yes, those programs will pass the test and will be considered intelligent.

... thus compression ratio on a standard benchmark corpus could be used as an objective and quantitative alternative test for AI (Mahoney, 1999).