To follow on with your points, if the term &quot;AI&quot; had never been coined, and Terminator (and other such) movies had never been made, all the breathless articles would be about &quot;learning algorithms iterated quickly, with simple inputs, simple outputs and a clear measure of success to help with the feedback&quot;.<p>Nobody would be under any illusion that this was anything we could label &quot;intelligence&quot;.