[bweitzman]

How do you tell if something you're trying to determine as intelligent or not has formed a model?

[uoaei]

If it efficiently ingests data with a non-trivial signal-to-noise ratio and returns actions/reactions that contain more signal and less noise.

[alanh]

Well, one thing you can ask it to do is to make a prediction.

[WithinReason]

You can't make accurate predictions without some kind of model