picture defining intelligence with an understanding of its extent, something like iq but with a true objective understanding of where intelligence begins and ends. yes, on that scale a calculator is exhibiting some amount of intelligence. it is given certain parameters (information) and it processes them to formulate a response to a condition (a question). maybe even a hammer is on the scale somewhere, with 1 point of intelligence, because even if it cannot but give the one single answer it is designed for, it still produces the result of its parameters under the right conditions. on this scale we wouldn't know where intelligence ends, maybe ultimate intelligence is something like imagining the complexity of the entire universe, or becoming god sure i agree on that scale it's hard to define intelligence because we don't know where it begins or ends. however just like the concept of "up" where it's very simple even a toddler can understand it, if you were to point "up" it would not only be relative only to yourself but it would probably not even be exact. we couldn't even say if there is some universal "up" so our definition of "up" will always be relative and imprecise. that doesn't mean though that we can't approximate the definition and use it for communication or evaluation, just like we do with "intelligence"
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