AI is exactly the right term: the machines can do "intelligence", and they do so artificially.

Just like we have machines that can do "math", and they do so artificially.

Or "logic", and they do so artificially.

I assume we'll drop the "artificial" part in my lifetime, since there's nothing truly artificial about it (just like math and logic), since it's really just mechanical.

No one cares that transistors can do math or logic, and it shouldn't bother people that transistors can predict next tokens either.