From my position this narrowing of the term AI to refer only to ‘real intelligence’ has always seemed like little more than an attempt to control the narrative

From my position this narrowing of the term AI to refer only to ‘real intelligence’ has always seemed like little more than an attempt to control the narrative against an astonishingly successful trend of connectionist architectures doing incredible things. Nobody complained when Pac-Man's ghosts got called AI, but now it's political. All of what I mentioned are neural networks.