intellignece and conciousness, the one implies the other?

can conciousness and intelligence be seperated? can intelligence stand
alone?
Neural nets can do intelligent tasks (recognizing licence plates etc)
but nobody would say they are intelligent. A snake can do no such
thing, but people contibute (at least some) intelligence to it. It
apears that for something to BE intelligent (not PERFORM an intelligent
task) it has to have some degree of conciousness. Yet no AI-researcher
is trying (at least not openly) to implement conciousness. Why is this?
is my "logic" flawed? are animals considered to be special in some way?


if anyone has some thoughts about this plz share.

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