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> When will conscious, actual intelligence be called 'synthetic intelligence' instead of 'artificial'?

One can bypass the whole sentience discussion and say that AI stands for Automated Inference.

If actual, conscious intelligence were to manifest synthetically, as in silicon-based rather than carbon-based, it is a losing battle to convince people because of the philosophical “problem of other minds.”

If there is a functional equivalence between meatspace intelligence and synthetic, it will surely have enough value to reinforce itself, philosophical debates aside.