It's an oldie but goodie --- but still a scam.

Selling what we call a computer as "intelligent" is like selling a DVD player as "creative" for it's ability to produce video. They are both just play back devices --- reproducing the work of others. Useful for sure but no more "intelligent" or "creative" than a hammer.

What would you call the field of Artificial Intelligence then? I can't think of anything.

Pattern Recognition? Automated Learning? Adaptive Software?

A new one that I'm kinda fond of --- Probabilistic Programming.

Any answer that "AI" provides has no assurance of correctness. It's up to you to judge if the probability is acceptable.

Do you really want to trust a self driving vehicle that misinterprets it's environment 20% of the time?

That's not a property of all AI techniques though, so calling the whole field by that seems very misleading.

Intelligence is not a property of all "AI" either.

None of those really cover much of the field.

AI also includes things like expert systems, which don't autmatically learn, adapt to much or recognize any patterns.

These type of systems are just a database with a multi-factor weighted search of some sort. Any "intelligence" involved comes directly from the real experts who set the weighting parameters and the user who interprets the results

Even if true, that doesn't make any of those other names fit any better.

The AI name works for me because it is goal oriented. Artificial Intelligence is implementing artificial systems that perform tasks that would otherwise require an intelligence (eg a human) to perform.

It doesn't really specify how you do that, it's just about what you're having it do.