Is Artificial Intelligence Intelligent?

Professor Roger Penrose, co-author of the Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR) theory of consciousness, recently remarked that artificial intelligence (AI) is not intelligent, as it lacks consciousness. He qualified this statement by noting that the assessment "depends on how one defines the term intelligence." This paper investigates the conceptual foundations of intelligence and examines the distinctions between natural and artificial forms of intelligence.This paper presents a simplified algorithmic model of the mind and introduces the Algorithm Conjecture as a framework for analyzing various forms of artificial intelligence. A novel conceptual perspective on artificial intelligence is developed, followed by a discussion of potential methods for enhancing the performance and capabilities of AI systems. The paper concludes by proposing a significant experimental approach aimed at advancing the empirical study of human consciousness.