'Blue' is a culturally loaded word but we can still create programs which can classify colours according to whether the average English speaker would describe them as 'blue'. The word 'intelligence' is poorly defined, but we can come to some agreement about what actions should be called 'intelligent' and then call a machine intelligent if it manages to carry them out (passing a Turing test for example). Obviously this is a purely behavioral definition which wont satisfy people who think that intelligence is some kind of spooky ghost which lives inside human skulls and breathes rationality into our actions, but its not clear what else we can do.
I think most people would say that a dog shows signs of intelligence, so it would be arbitrary to say that a (fully functioning) robot dog wasnt intelligent.
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EDIT: Well I guess I am assuming that AI requires consciousness to be intelligent. Does it?
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It depends how you want to define 'intelligent'. But in any case, its quite hard to give a definition of consciousness which includes humans and cats, but rules out (say) a videocamera attached to a destructible robot which can act on the received images.