[kamaal]

Actually bulk of what we call human intelligence is basically nothing more than a chain of facts we built up, each fact derived based on the truths we learned(or perceived) before.

Intelligence therefore is that process where you get from A to B, with steps in between that require consciously investigating the already available knowledge to us.

This is already happening with machines today. Someday a person will come up with a generic learning algorithm, which has a meta component to either search for answers in the space it already knows, or use external means to learn more about it.

Please also note without means to move around, use your hand/legs/eyes et al to test around and build your experiences, we will likely have the same primitive intelligence. Only difference now is instead of giving the machines these sensory organs, we are only working with an algorithm with inputs and outputs and then have it evolve.