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To do maths, a human needs to be able to see, perceive the numbers and symbols, interpret them into it's own understanding, work out an answer (somehow and people do this differently) and output it in verbal or written form, or just hold it in thought I guess. A human has to have the concept of maths and what a mathematical problem is. The calculator knows nothing about the concept of maths or problems and it must be fed the problem in exactly the right format and only gives the output in a single format. I never understands what it is doing or why.

So in short, yes I consider doing maths part of overall human intelligence, but to do it needs other skills and awareness.

As for what I mean by AI, I was extrapolating conventional AI to an entity with self-awareness.

Anyway wiki says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence