His theory about intelligence is totally acceptable, but adding that the prediction is an intelligence capacity, I would say yes, but the prediction is more for a wise person. A wise person can predict the events that can occur based on the knowledge already stored, while the intelligent person has to put together a puzzle to arrive at a prediction. What makes a wise person faster in making decisions.
I came to the same conclusion that being wise helps you react more quickly, because the mapping between what is and the right action is more direct. For a smart person it takes much more thinking, weighing and imagining to make a decision of the same quality.