...Intelligence isn't pure reasoning. Yet the arrogance of standardized testing is!

Very soon, we will say machines think as we do, consciously. The effort to make them do so is wasted time and an endeavor only taken seriously by those who are looking to become completely lazy, or isolated from the divergence that individual beings bring. It won't be because we have any idea what consciousness is. But we will mean something when we say it. And that we will say it--and, finally, forget to say it--has a meaning of its own. Meaning implied by only verbal existence (or lack thereof) is "full of holes" - "The lerprechan rode my blue unicorn" is understandable, but means little (aside from aesthetics), just as experienced posters (ones who post) who don't out of protest really aren't heard! Machines will think as we do when we recognize them doing so.You're starting to sound like a machine. We will not come to realize that machines think through analysis, machines will come to think when we have empathy for them. I'd be more inclined to say that that empathy will come when they have empathy for us (which will never happen). Machines have been cultivating empathy in us for a long time. Maybe in materialists in general, and certainly "consumers" whether they use the machines or not, but leave me out of "us".