[davmre]

Why shouldn't it be? You don't even need the glorification. A normal calculator is performing what most people would consider to be a difficult cognitive task, and doing so at a superhuman level.

AI is not some magical ineffable thing that will someday appear out of nowhere. It's the name we give to the gradual progression of our efforts to build machines to perform cognitive tasks. Someone from the pre-computer age would have had no problem recognizing even the ENIAC as intelligent, in a limited sense; it could solve problems that were previously too hard even for the smartest human mathematicians. As someone who actually does AI research on a daily basis, I have no problem with granting intelligence to even very basic chatbots. That goes hand in hand with recognizing that there are many kinds and levels of intelligence, and plenty of opportunity to build smarter and more flexible systems.

[TheLogothete]

You are saying that amebas* are intelligent.

* Viruses would probably be a more apt analogy.

[davmre]

I don't think that follows from what I wrote, though it's certainly a defensible position.