My personal moral of (seemingly malicious) language ambiguity is to avoid the term AI altogether.

Oh, it's definitely malicious.

Tbf I may be biased by my internal mental model of coding, where I imagine describing a set of steps, relations, abstractions, etc to an entity with an extremely direct manner of interpretation.

Interesting. I'm unsure what my internal mental model of coding is. I guess I just kinda... feel the code? I wonder if it's because I'm autistic, but things like programming and mathematics feel very natural and intuitive to me. They're logical, predictable, and rule-based.

Thanks for the discussion!

Likewise: this has been such a pleasant internet interaction; a rare occurance.