What is Intelligence?

"To my mind [intelligence] must entail a set of skills enabling the individual to resolve genuine problems or difficulties that he or she encounters and, when appropriate, to create an effective product — and must also entail the potential for finding or creating problems, and thereby laying the groundwork for the acquisition of new knowledge" Howard Gardner

Intelligence is such a common word and yet it is really difficult to define, or what we exactly mean by it. This is a problem encountered in developing computers. Computers actually do very well at what they do, but it's not enough. We want them to be human. Don't we? That's really what we want. To find intelligence in that raw form. According to Moore's law, computing power roughly doubles every 18 months. A highly consistent statistic. Yet silicon has a fundamental flaw. At a certain point, as silicon gets smaller and smaller, it eventually will burn as opposed to do conduct energy. See in my opinion, we're approaching it from entirely the wrong angle. The brain is the answer. Networks have exponential communicative abilities, and operate at several energies, as well as interact among hundreds of chemicals. Networks are much more efficient, though less accurate. They do not solely posses the ability of logic, as computers do. But instead allow for mistakes, strengthened probabilistically.