Objectively speaking a chess engine is artificially intelligent. Just because it's not human level doesn't mean it's not intelligent. Repeat for any N of 100s of different technologies we've built. We've been calling this stuff "thinking machines" since Turing and it's honestly just not useful at this point.

The fact is, the phrase "artificial intelligence" is a memetic hazard: it immediately positions the subject of conversation as "default capable", and then forces the conversation into trying to describe what it can't do, which is rarely a useful way to approach it.

Whereas with LLMs (and chess engines and every other tech advancement) it would be more useful to start with what the tech _can_ do and go from there.