intelligence - introduction

Intelligence presupposes some ability to think and respond to what is going on. Whilst it requires some level of awareness, it does not infer that the product thinks like a human being.
Typical mechanical devices like motor cars several decades ago were simply beasts of steel with virtually no capacity for reason or decision making. Today, cars possess various levels of awareness. For example, Electronic Fuel Injection is able to think to the extent that it can optimize the rate at which fuel should be pumped into the combustion chambers within your engine. On the IQ (Intelligent Quotient) scale, this wouldn’t rate a mention and yet it is a major step toward products with some level of reasoning or decision making capability.
Examples of ‘intelligence’ are often prefaced by the word ‘smart’. For example, a ‘smart card’ refers to a credit card which includes a computer chip that is able to store and restore data. Earlier ‘dumb cards’ simply had a magnetic strip that was able to store a preprogrammed and unalterable piece of information into it.
The symbol we have used for 'intelligence' is a human head as the container for our own intelligence.