not intelligent

They’re not intelligent by any common definition of the word; they’re just good at seeming intelligent to an outsider unaware of the electronic processing inside them — a simulacrum of human thought, not the product of cogitation.

"People tend to think that plants are not intelligent, but our studies have shown that they are actively responding to the environment around them using chemistry."

Bargatze has perfected the every man act, but his comedy writing is too sophisticated for anyone to fall for the claims that he’s not intelligent.

They’re not intelligent in anything like the sense that humans and animals are intelligent; they’re just designed to seem intelligent to an outsider unaware of the electronic processes going on inside.

But they are not "intelligent" in any real way — they are just automated calculators that spit out words.