[TchoBeer]

At what point would you be willing to concede that an algorithm is actually intelligent? What would be required for that?

[andrewprock]

The definition of algorithm and intelligence are mutually exclusive. Maybe you are asking a different question?

"When will we discover an algorithm for intelligence?"

[richk449]

If we understand something, we can describe it with an algorithm.

If algorithms for intelligence are by definition impossible, then understanding intelligence is by definition impossible.

So if true intelligence is something beyond our current understanding of the world (beyond algorithmic description). To me, this feels like god in the gaps applied to intelligence.

[andrewprock]

Understanding does not imply computability. The halting problem is the classic example of this.