Short version: "I’m going to embrace the term Artificial Intelligence and trust my readers to understand what I mean without assuming I’m talking about Skynet."
@simon Your readers are probably fine, but the problem is this is the first time this has escaped into the real world. It is being put in front of muggles who have been trained on sci-fi and have wildly unrealistic expectations. We know LLMs are glorified photocopiers, but normal people who I've spoken with genuinely expect the "intelligence" bit to mean that answers come from human-like knowledge and thought. The danger is the AI label means they trust what LLMs generate without question.
@radiac I do agree with that, but I'm not sure that's the battle worth fighting right now - my concern is that if we start the conversation with "you know it shouldn't really be called AI, right?" we've already put ourselves at a disadvantage with respect to helping people understand what these things are and what they can reasonably be used to do
@simon True, it's not like we can change the narrative now anyway - it's intentional, it's billionaire marketing. Trying to rebrand as "not AGI" is not going to work, the public have never heard of AGI and won't be interested in the difference.
It's trolling vs abuse, or hacker vs cracker again - if I say in the real world "I enjoy trolling" I lose friends, or "I'm a hacker" they imagine me skating around train stations looking for landlines. Difference is, misnomers like that don't risk harm.