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I'll still call them UAVs.
But I don't think the original definition of AI was AGI... can you say more?
AI was coined in the 50's and was broadly meant to be "a computer that can behave like a human" in terms of reasoning, and self-improvement. It kind of put a name to what Alan Turing was working on with the Imitation Game/Turing Test, which he hinted would require a "learning" aspect.
In Sci-Fi, and generally in computer science, that was what was meant by AI for a long time, maybe with Sci-Fi taking it further into the super intelligence realm (e.g. in Neuromancer), until people started applying the term to smaller research items like math problem solvers, expert systems, machine learning, computer speech and recognition. Once that became more prevalent, AGI was coined.
I don't think that's accurate. The earliest AI conferences (in the 50s) were taken up with programs, algorithms and ideas which, today, look incredibly primitive - solvers which could (very slowly, and not practically for anything interesting) solve logic problems if they were posed appropriately. Like a really shit version of a SAT-solver.
Turing wrote that a machine which passed the Turing Test could reasonably be described as a thinking thing. LLMs from several years ago (and in fact, models from years before that) could pass the Turing test, so they are very much the kind of thing he was talking about - yet they are certainly not AGI. As part of his discussion of this, he addressed several possible gaps, including about learning, meaning that something which convincingly passes the Turing test would also, to him, demonstrate some ability to learn.
Early on, "artificial intelligence" was used to describe what we now call AGI, but it was also used to describe all sorts of problems which, at the time, were only soluble by intelligent people - such as machine translation, image recognition, or finding an efficient path through a maze.
Sorry. From your question, I didn't know you were an expert on CS/AI history. I defer to your wondrous knowledge on the subject to nitpick at what you baited me into talking about in detail.
Sorry I just didn't want to launch into what I already believed if you were talking about something different than what I thought.