[tefraxKedWere]

No, it's a bit more elusive than that. Intelligence is not just processing speeds or we would in fact consider Rain Men to be the smartest men on the planet. True intelligence involves, among other things:

-ability to approach problems from different angles
-ability to learn new concepts and integrate them with existing knowledge
-ability to imagine unusual possibilities, and question one's own assumptions
-ability to act and learn independently

None of which computers have. IIUC, computers have a very fixed set of ideas to work with, and they don't think so much as plug input into an equation and give you the output. The equation may be very complicated, but it has to be written beforehand, and the computer can't choose to modify it. It can't "think" about the problem at all.

Now, if I'm getting you right (tell me if I'm not), you're saying we just need to find a way to have computers think, "IF this ain't making sense THEN step back and examine the problem in a new light." But how does the computer know what new light to look at it under? You'd have to program in all possible ways of looking at a problem, which is impossible--unless you already have the problem solved, no? In which case, there's no need for the computer in the first place, it's just acting out a role you wrote for it. You need to teach a computer to imagine, to think for itself. Which is fundamentally different from what computers do. Again, IIUC. I'm definitely not a comp sci person.