Well, intelligence is as intelligence does.
And the current human ability to exponentially evolve matter into alternative data management systems, is a demonstrable testament to its intellectual capability.
So organic organisms took a while to get this far...But actually they only took as long as they did...Our retrospective impatience is inconsequential.
Though our current inability to comfortably exist beyond this planets protective shields, might suggest where the intellectual future lies.
Of course, intelligence might have no Greater universal significance...Which would imply, that neither does humanity.