> Way to subdue discussion

If you want to be dismissive and with quick quips that's not a discussion. There's plenty to respond to without relying on "there's no definition of intelligence" and definitely not "so I'll just make one up".

  >  or rather it's irrelevant whether something has intelligence or not

But it seems like you want to be dismissing, not engage in discussion.

  > whether it conforms to your academic definition of "having intelligence" or not.

Why pretend like I don't care that it works? In fact, that's the primary motivation of making these distinctions.