intelligence is a force ... that acts so as to maximize future freedom of action
It sounds like "intelligence" craves for an image called "freedom of action in the future". Buddhism is very different: meditation is a practice to free people from suffering.
He also says that intelligence is goal-seeking and control-grabbing. WellI think that Buddhism doesn't mean to control someone's own life, it's more about "behaving in a way that suffering is not produced". Control is subjectively pervaded with attachment and aversion. It's subtle. How can someone change his/her own behavior without being attached to some mind states and not being averse to others?
And also, someone can think that enlightenment is a goal, but seeing it like this is a pitfall. A goal implies expectation, or anticipation of the future, only more samkara. How someone can seek nirvana without imagining it in the future?
But there is a lot of intelligent people clinging on samsara.
By this definition is Buddhist practice very intelligent?
No, because in this definition intelligence implies suffering.
By the way, in Buddhism, intelligence could be understood differently.