> So my point: if we're describing something as 'artificial' intelligence, we should expect it to be a fake substitute for real intelligence, that has been manufactured to serve that purpose.

And my point is that I don't think most people are reading it that way. We're in a hype cycle where people are treating it like true general AI, like you'd see in sci-fi, instead of what it is: fake/simulated intelligence.

I think you're putting too much weight on the components of a term, instead of seeing the term as a whole.