The term "artificial intelligence" (AI) is a misnomer at best and a misleading smokescreen at worst. THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS AI.
The appropriate and accurate term IMO should be "cumulative transmissive actuation" or CTA (Look up the definition of each separate word if unsure...)
I advocate the use of this descriptive term instead of the nebulous and confusion-perpetuating "artificial intelligence" or "AI."
Again, there's no such thing as AI. There's only CTA and can ONLY BE CTA. That's how to properly denote what a machine is and how it works because it directly translates from what a machine is (sense 1d, Merriam-Webster) which only involves load transference.
The change in terms indicate the following:
CTA isn't an active "ability" but a passive process
CTA isn't anthropomorphic
CTA is an actual terminological indicator of mechanistic nature, not "AI"
CTA is appropriately and desirably boring, because EVERY MACHINE involves CTA, not just "smart" or "futuristic" sparkly sci-fi ones that glaze people's brains over
CTA contains no illusion/delusion of AGENCY (You roll a marble across a table, and then it's suddenly "rolling on its own?" Who made the marble? A catapult doesn't fling by itself. There's also no "self-driving car." Who did the programming? Kick the Can O' Programming far enough down the road and hope it disappears so no one notices? Who wrote the neural network's algorithm?)
"So, it's automation?" Yep! Basically! ...EXCEPT it escapes the "automatic" connotation which creates the agency trap. No machine is "automatic" in respect to its non-existent agency. The machine is adhering to its construction and programming of its human creators, not "itself," even if some of its creators get MASSIVELY CONFUSED and lose track of what the heck it is they're really making.
Use the term every chance you get. Correct people ("Nope it's not AI it's cumulative transmissive actuation,") be an insufferable pedant. Don't have to even say it's from me. Annoy as many people as possible so at least a few of them start thinking about what it all actually means.