[felipeerias]

One sci-fi example could be based on the replicators from Star Trek, who are able to synthesize any meals on demand.

It is not hard to imagine a "cooking robot" as a black box that — given the appropriate ingredients — would cook any dish for you. Press a button, say what you want, and out it comes.

Internally, the machine would need to perform lots of tasks that we usually associate with intelligence, from managing ingredients and planning cooking steps, to fine-grained perception and manipulation of the food as it is cooking. But it would not be conscious in any real way. Order comes in, dish comes out.

Would we use "intelligent" to describe such a machine? Or "magic"?

[svachalek]

I immediately thought of Star Trek too, I think the ship's computer was another example of unconscious intelligence. It was incredibly capable and could answer just about any request that anyone made of it. But it had no initiative or motivation of its own.