People were calling everything agent-like AI since forever. Video games had AI. Heck, Pacman's ghosts had AI. Nobody cared. They understood what it was referrin

People were calling everything agent-like AI since forever. Video games had AI. Heck, Pacman's ghosts had AI. Nobody cared. They understood what it was referring to. I only started hearing how it would ‘dilute the language’ or the term was ‘disingenuous’ or whatever once AI started actually doing intellectually impressive feats, and the naysayers started trying to redefine language to suit their prefered worldview. The fact is the term has always been used loosely. Even if it hadn't been, several of the undisputed top machine learning corporations (eg. DeepMind) has the explicit goal of reaching general intelligence, which remains true even if you are sure they will fail. Its use as a term is more appropriate than ever.