To a certain extent, any computer program by definition includes some level of artificial intelligence since the inherent concepts are human in nature to begin with. Computer programming languages may be thought of as nothing more than the codification of how we think we think. The behavior of the programs we create is simply a reflection of the behaviors we see in our everyday lives. When we program connections, electrical or otherwise, we are simply imparting our intelligence onto the entity. The entity is already by definition an artificial representation of our human intelligence. It is constructed to represent human behaviors. It is already artificially intelligent so perhaps a better term for the phenomena currently known as artificial intelligence might be physical thought.
Physical rather than artificial because physical implies movement between connections while artificial implies not real, however, a robot is a real entity programmed by humans so I prefer something that connotes physical connections because to a certain extent that is all we are doing really, is designing interconnected systems and programming them.
Thought rather than intelligence because physical entities may be programmed to perform behaviors we could consider intelligent, like beating a human at chess, however, this is more a feat of knowledge than of intelligence. In fact we really don't know how to measure intelligence yet, we tend to design tests that measure knowledge rather than intelligence. Intelligence is a difficult concept to put a boundary around.
Thought, on the other hand implies consideration or rationalization. We often add the ability to learn to this but learning is actually a different concept. Learning is more mechanical in nature than thought. Learning can be accomplished mechanically by adjusting weighted values in response to inputs over time but thought is a more abstract concept.
Regardless, it is the case that whatever we create will be uniquely human in its approach to the world whether we call it artificial intelligence or physical thought, it is simply going about its business in a very humanistic manner because humans designed it and humans only know how they think humans think. Humans don't know how other forms of intelligence think; yet.
