I agree. Consciousness is not required for intelligence. Before I read your post, I was going to write to mention as well that people's definition is not only extremely wide ranging - running the gamut from memorizing digits of pi or spitting out trivia to self awareness and introspection - but it is also inconsistent. Changing scope and form based on whether the entity in question is autistic or a machine.

I muse that there is a race of AI type intelligences where genius is measure only in their ability to create moving works of arts and any fool can perform advanced mathematics and exceedingly complex computations involving a vast amount of variables.