My point is the equivocation is not logically valid. If you want to operate on the definition that AI is strictly the "new" stuff we don't understand yet, you must be sure that you do not slip in the old stuff under the new definition and start doing logic on it.
I'm actually not making fun of that definition, either. YouTube has been trying to get me to watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZDiGooFs54 , "The moment we stopped understanding AI [AlexNet]", but I'm pretty sure I can guess the content of the entire video from the thumbnail. I would consider it a reasonable 2040s definition of "AI" as "any algorithm humans can not deeply understand"; it may not be what people think of now, but that definition would certainly capture a very, very important distinction between algorith types. It'll leave some stuff at the fringes, but eh, all definitions have that if you look hard enough.
I'm actually not making fun of that definition, either. YouTube has been trying to get me to watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZDiGooFs54 , "The moment we stopped understanding AI [AlexNet]", but I'm pretty sure I can guess the content of the entire video from the thumbnail. I would consider it a reasonable 2040s definition of "AI" as "any algorithm humans can not deeply understand"; it may not be what people think of now, but that definition would certainly capture a very, very important distinction between algorith types. It'll leave some stuff at the fringes, but eh, all definitions have that if you look hard enough.