Does it make sense to call the computer system in front of you as being controlled by a single algorithm? If so that would have to be the fetch-execute cycle. Which may not halt or be a finite sequence. This form of system is sometimes called an interaction machine or persistent Turing machine. So some may say it is not an algorithm.
The fetch-execute cycle is very poor at giving you information about what problems your computer might be able to solve, as it can download code from all over the place. Similarly if you think of an intelligence as this sort of system, you cannot bound what problems it might be able to solve. At any given time it won’t have the programming to solve all problems well, but it can modify the programming it does have.
Can you unpack algorithm and why you think an intelligence is one?
I’m not sure what your point is, I don’t think I use the term “algorithm” in a non-standard way.
Wikipedia says: “Thus, an algorithm can be considered to be any sequence of operations that can be simulated by a Turing-complete system.”
When talking about “intelligence” I assume we are talking about a goal-oriented agent, controlled by an algorithm as defined above.
Does it make sense to call the computer system in front of you as being controlled by a single algorithm? If so that would have to be the fetch-execute cycle. Which may not halt or be a finite sequence. This form of system is sometimes called an interaction machine or persistent Turing machine. So some may say it is not an algorithm.
The fetch-execute cycle is very poor at giving you information about what problems your computer might be able to solve, as it can download code from all over the place. Similarly if you think of an intelligence as this sort of system, you cannot bound what problems it might be able to solve. At any given time it won’t have the programming to solve all problems well, but it can modify the programming it does have.