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Perhaps, but it's not a technical term. And it's not the correct term from a technical perspective either.
AI is a pop culture term that has been in use long before practical machine learning or large language models. It already has a known definition which resembles artificial general intelligence or AGI. It is being applied to ML and LLMs for marketing purposes.
That's even richer. So the term AI should be reserved for the future tech that may or may not come to exist, even though that mythical technology already has a perfectly suitable name (AGI) ? That sounds... useful ! But also very interesting, and intellectually stimulating ! After all, who doesn't love those little semantics games ?
AI is a technical term that has been used by researchers and product developers for 50 years, with a fairly consistent definition. I know it hurts because it contradicts your pedestrian opinion on how Big Words should be used, but that's just the way it is. We're not at a point yet where humanity recognizes your legitimacy to decide how words are used.
It's the term that researchers use, so does that not make it a technical term? It's also the only term we have for describing this line of work and its outputs, so until we have a replacement, it'll continue to be called AI.