[sebastiennight]

You seem to use the word intelligence to mean `consciousness` (if you replaced the first with the latter I would agree with your argument).

I would define "intelligence" as (1) the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations and (2) the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment.

It turns out that this is also the Merriam-Webster definition [0]. By that definition, yes AlphaZero was learning and understanding how to deal with situations and is intelligent, and yes most machine-learning systems and many other systems that have a specific goal and manipulate data/the environment to optimize for that goal, are intelligent.

By this definition, a non-living, non-conscious entity can be intelligent.

And intelligence has nothing to do with "experiences" (which seem to belong in the "consciousness" debate).

[0]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intelligence