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Minor corrections: AI does not just comprise methods for tasks that require 'cognition'. Let's rather use the more general "information processing". Nor is it restricted to "normally requires humans". Think of swarm intelligence methods for example, like ant colony optimization.
There is an inherent issue in the definition of the word "intelligence" though. For labelling a bunch of methods, that's not as problematic, we could call all that 'banana milkshake' as long as we agree upon what we put into that category.
But we do not even have a good definition of "intelligence" itself. As soon as this issue is solved, we might start rethinking the label 'artificial intelligence'.
My proposed "information processing" is also insufficient, as it would make a fancy pocket calculator indistinguishable from what we usually call "AI".
Thinking about that: if we would apply some AI methods, e.g. from the field of machine learning, to perform operations that a pocket calculator already solves (which is kind of ridiculous, because we would be using a computer to train an AI model to mimick a computer) does that make a calculator AI? Or the AI a calculator? What would that make us humans?