I have a hard time understanding why even technical people use the term "AI" today. Its use should be limited to sensational media and cheesy sci-fi. It's roughly equivalent to saying "computery thingamabob". I would call a pocket calculator an AI too. Why not? It carries out certain mental tasks better than our brains do.
I think "AI" does still have meaning, in that the goal of AGI hasn't gone away. Yes, any goal that's tangential to AGI probably shouldn't be called AI. But as long as the constituent tasks needed by AI (vision, learning, speech in/out, etc) continue to improve rapidly, especially due to advances in a single technology like DL, it's inevitable and IMO appropriate that the umbrella moniker used to describe DL and its impacts remains "AI".
