If it's been the way the field has used it for decades, it's not really a misuse.
> that the word has been so redefined
It's not been redefined though, other than people now wanting to moan about PR and things not being "real" AI when we've had AGI as a term to use right there.
> If we want to consider even basic algorithms to be intelligence, are we boiling down the entire concept of intelligence to mathematical equations?
Massive side argument, but I think we obey physical laws and are not magical and so fundamentally I can't see another answer.
If it's been the way the field has used it for decades, it's not really a misuse.
> that the word has been so redefined
It's not been redefined though, other than people now wanting to moan about PR and things not being "real" AI when we've had AGI as a term to use right there.
> If we want to consider even basic algorithms to be intelligence, are we boiling down the entire concept of intelligence to mathematical equations?
Massive side argument, but I think we obey physical laws and are not magical and so fundamentally I can't see another answer.